With one foot in the club and the other in the living room: that’s how many strut around, and South Londoner George FitzGerald also leaves his footprints somewhere between Caribou, Röyksopp and Moderat. Originally at home in the Berlin techno scene, the Brit was immediately accused of treason when his first album was released. Yuck, that’s pop music.
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Now it’s here, the third album, and the pop shimmers through the dancefloor more than ever. With its gently rising and falling pads, he commemorates Detroit with the album opener “Further And Further”, but the hoped-for Roland 909 beat doesn’t want to start. Instead, “Passed Tense” follows, a hop-along number with vocals by Animal Collectives Panda Bear, bringing the lightheartedness of his own songs to the dance floor.
And then we come up with a concept that the album title already conveys: FitzGerald was inspired by space, he translated images from NASA telescopes into sounds. The result sounds less esoteric than one might think. The album glitters and shines in the falling stardust, but otherwise post-dubstep cast in pop rumbles along solidly. London Grammar also say thank you for their help in the production of the last album and rumble along. FitzGerald does everything correctly, but in the end too correctly. With a few surprises, such as a meteorite crashing in or a UFO suddenly landing, he would have conquered half a star more.
Source: Michael Prenner
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