Released 18/01

Jacket Pocket Records



Mixing Hot Chip/LCD Soundsystem-style electronica with languid vocals akin to Ian Brown is bound to sound good in a club at 1am. But in the cold light of day the title-track of Neon Circus’s psychedelic new EP Future Disco lacks energy.

Extended play is possibly misleading. The only track on the Leicester pair’s debut record that isn’t a remix of 'Future Disco' is 'Carry the Weight' - a funkier, more original affair with spoken word lyrics and a brass section..

But it’s the Memberflex drum and base remix of 'Future Disco' that makes the record worth slipping on before you order that rack of vodkas at the bar. The vocals are sped up so it’s more of a chant than a drawl and there’s layer upon layer of top-drawer break beats.

Future Disco’s other remix by WIL.I.5 isn’t quite so successful - offering a fatter base and 90s house sound-effects that do little more than disguise the original.

Neon Circus have had their track 'Digit-izm' signed to new MTV street-racing series Slips - a breakthrough which suggests you’ll hear a lot more of them, especially when this is also released as a single later this year. And any success appears to be deserved as the duo worked hard to self-produce their tunes from the studio of a garage attic.


But with those vocals the duo are one for the clubs and not the armchair.

Posted In Single Reviews, Jan 16 2010. Words - Cris