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Calvin Harris 'I Created Disco' Album
Review
So electropop is trendy now? Never
mind the fact that the likes of Girls Aloud, Rachel Stevens
and Kylie have been churning out high quality electropop for
ages… At the forefront of this new fashionable electronica is
shelf-stacker turned producer turned singer Calvin Harris,
whose hit Acceptable In The 80s has become as
overexposed as the footless tights and denim skirt combo.
If you liked that very catchy but annoyingly one-dimensional
smash, you’re likely to enjoy his album, the modestly-titled
I Created Disco. For what you get is more, much much
more, of the same and errrr… a little bit more of the same
too. Tracks that have a great pulsating electro beat yet
proceed to stamp it again and again over the space of four
minutes with little progression. Many of these tracks cry out
for a radio edit in the manner of Acceptable In The 80s,
which here clocks in at an alarmingly snoozeworthy five and a
half minutes. They also cry out for a proper singer – there’s
only so much of Harris basically talking that one can take –
and songwriter. The same mind-numbingly mundane words being
repeated to death reduces certain songs (‘I get all the girls
I get all the girls’ multiplied by 50 on new single, The
Girls) to a tedious monotony when a proper construction
could have made them minor masterpieces.
At its best, on tracks like Colours and Merrymaking
At My Place, Calvin Harris’ brand of pared-down
electronica thoroughly deserves to be ubiquitous. At its most
self-indulgently smug and crudely underdeveloped, the only
popularity it deserves is that of the dumper. As it is, I
Created Disco is a catchy and tuneful, though
unfulfilling, album that functions on the same one-note level
as a dance album.
ON REPEAT – Colours, Merrymaking At My Place
PRESS SKIP – Vegas, The Girls, This Is The
Industry, I Created Disco
Click here to buy I Created Disco at amazon.co.uk >>
Rachel Read
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