Despite the disconcerting, digi-stuttering that opens this album and reappears (less disconcertingly) sporadically throughout, Real Life Is No Cool is actually chock full of quite straight ahead Moroder-infl uenced house and funky disco. The bass delivers deliciously thick and strong with enough subtlety, swing and building up and breaking down to satisfy the most uncompromising house diva. Lindstrøm defi nitely mines the past and dancefloor conventions but this is no retro orgy; it’s a lovely distillation of a plethora of dance genres, pop lightness (liberally borrowing from Michael Jackson) and slightly edgy production.
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