This Is Not - (4:35) 122 BPM
Burnt Out Beach - (4:24) 133 BPM
Lairy Lil' Junkie - (4:38) 133 BPM
I Am The Body Electric - (3:56) 126 BPM
Super Sound Single - (4:02) 110 BPM
Emergency Calling - (4:54)
97 BPM Night Of The Off Key Hat - (4:25) 120 BPM
Dangerous Machine - (5:25) 118 BPM
The Hour - (3:39) 140 BPM
Review: What was perhaps most thrilling about the early work of Off Key Hat pairing Leon Mayes and Darren Morris was its strange, oddball nature. Since leaving the now defunct Dissident imprint a few years back, they've progressively moved further towards a brand of oddball synth-pop that references Italo, electrofunk and acid just as much as early 80s new wave and alternative pop. Dangerous Machine, their debut album, completes that journey. With regular vocalist Michelle Manetti in fine voice, it features 10 powerful, leftfield synth-pop moments that veer from the wobbly and wonky ("Night Of The Off Key Hat") and sweet and funky ("Super Sound Single", "Emergency Calling") to the downright dirty (the Goldfrapp-ish "Lairy Lil' Junkie").
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09 May 11
Disco/Nu-Disco