Album Review

Various – Moshi Moshi Singles Club – Volume 2

• 27th May 2010

It’s rare to come across such a diverse compilation album as this, where the only discernable connecting theme is complete discord.

No two songs on Moshi Moshi Records’ Singles Compilation are alike, and that certainly works in the favour of this excellent mishmash of 80s-Futuristic-Folk-Mainstream-Minimalist styles.

The array of different styles is sure to suit every palette, with the CasinoKids’ “Gront lis i alle ledd” standing out for the electro/synth team, although songs less notable for their overall do have some nicely quirky little features (Still Flyin’s “Good Thing It’s A Ghost Town Around Here” seems to feature a musician on the spoons?!).

Musically speaking the gold has to go to Diskjokke’s “Rosenrod” for sheer audacity: here we have a dance tune which is nigh on impossible to dance to, with thanks to Phillip Glass for his indirect input into this Minimalist track for the 21st Century. Don’t be disappointed though, ravers, if a good dance is what you’re after you have only to skip ahead to Bless Beats’ city Salsa “Sex In the City” (ironically named or not – I leave it to you?) which will have you packing your bags and heading to aforementioned Sex City, where the tourist board must no doubt be having a field day.

Moshi Moshi have amassed a wonderful bunch of musicians, and if this compilation is anything to go on I would buy your stocks and shares now because the only way for this record company is up, up, up.