Dragonette - Galore
If an album comes out this year with a stronger opening than ‘Galore’ we will quite happily eat it with chips.
The first three tracks, in particular ’Take It Like A Man’, are all solid gold masterpieces, destined to go down in pop history (probably).
Once you’re over the shock of hearing three of the year’s best songs back-to-back in under ten minutes, there’s plenty more fun to be had across the rest of the album. From the insistent groove of fan favourite ‘Jesus Doesn’t Love Me’, to ‘True Believer’, which is the sound of Kate Bush at her poppiest, frotting on a rollercoaster, this album is something of a riot.
Dragonette’s best trick here though might actually be taking genres that other acts struggle with - like massive electro ballads or weird oompah piano plinkalongs (really) - and making them work surprisingly well.
‘Another Day’ sounds like Robyn popping anti-depressants with Nelly Furtado, and is brilliant, while ‘Get Lucky’ (which by rights should be the most hateable thing this side of a Twang single) is actually rather sweet.
The only complaint (apart from ‘Black Limousine’s peculiar ripping-off of the BrassEye theme) is that after such an amazing beginning, the end of the album seems awfully flat by comparison.
Indeed, by the time sub-Holly Valance closer ‘Marvellous’ ends you’ll be wishing they’d spent less time recording filler and more time making sure the actual classics were distributed more evenly throughout the album.
Nevertheless ‘Galore’ remains a triumph, albeit a lop-sided one.
457 out of 500.
*sorry
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