Hugh Montgomery 

Discovery, LP

What matters is the potency of the tunes, which are giddily populist and slyly inventive, says Hugh Montgomery
  
  


The side project of Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles, it casts the cerebral New Yorkers as cheesy pool-party engineers, proffering a blend of glitchy synth-pop and Auto-Tuned R&B. Suggesting the bastard offspring of Hot Chip and Akon, their shtick bears a pungent whiff of novelty which bodes ill for its shelf life. But from skittering slow jam "Orange Shirt" to the tempo-shifting, tropical-flavoured "So Insane", what matters for now is the potency of the tunes, which are giddily populist and slyly inventive in equal measure.

 

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