Idealism packs in more memorable riffs and tunes than the recent Bloc Party and Futureheads albums put together.   Full text...

'Idealism' is dusted with the kind of metallic house glitter caking LCD's 'Sound Of Silver', and, just as promisingly, the title track could have been carved from Daft Punk before they decided they were human after all. Elsewhere, synth-punch 'Pogo' thwacks like a double uppercut from The Chemical Brothers - just one of the block rockin' feats here.   Full text...

Anyone nostalgic for premillennial disco will be delighted.  Full text...

With Idealism they’ve moved away from German dance music and jumped in the middle of the dirty electro-infused French touch that surfaced on MP3 blogs late last year (and which is now being dubbed “blog house”).   Full text...