Has there been a steady disco revival brewing for a few years that's soon about to break from the underground and besiege the charts? From Hercules & Love Affair and Music Go Music there have been rumblings of a return to that era, one that the press focused on a lot this year with the passing of both Robin Gibb and Donna Summer. Brighton trio Transformer aren't the first group embracing those sounds and updating them that we've featured on this site recently. Consisting of live bass, drums, keys/programming and vocals, on 'Dragonfly' these guys are picking up the genre and battering it into a rougher, more brutal shape.
Falsetto vocals take the lead, naturally, and the funk element is high on the agenda with some slap bass (disco music is about the only time slap bass is acceptable) and cosmic synth pulses. There's a harder edge though, the synths crunch and squelch as much as anything else and your original disco loving elder relative probably won't be impressed with the genre being given such a coarse makeover, but it's exactly this that makes it sound fresh again. Revivals work best if the sound can be dragged to the here and now, and this is exactly what Transformer have done. And if a four-minute song just isn't long enough to party to, then fear not, a trio of remixes will keep the party going that little bit longer.
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