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Set the lighting to “strobe mode”

Their first record since 2004’s ARIA-winning Six Feet Above Yesterday, dance trio Infusion’s All Night Sun Light is rife with house and techno textures, the tunes sounding as ready for radio as the clubs. There are beats aplenty, but they are downplayed for the purpose of letting the melodies dominate – 2-Player Game is a potential Presets-sized anthem, but its lighter touch also brings to mind the more refined aesthetic of Hot Chip. Memory Cheats is a Britney’s Womanizer with a deadpan delivery and brass makeover (which is a good thing, by the way) and Gotta Leave Now is the kind of sleek electronic pop that has been Cut Copy’s bread and butter in recent years. Moodier Depeche Mode territory is explored in Falling Into Place, while So Soon finds the outfit creating a dramatic soundscape of ambient synths and rumbling percussion, but their pop smarts never desert them. To prove that melody is a dominant force for Infusion, there’s an acoustic guitar strumming along in the handclap-heavy Justified. Even when things get down ‘n dirty in Dogtown (“I’ll get you steamed up, I’ll burn your house down, we’ll wake the street up”), the tune’s robo-vocals and clubland heart prove Infusion are not about to be confused with Prince just yet. Rather, Infusion are New Order for a post-Daft Punk world, their hi-tech disco slinkiness, atmospheric synths and cracking melodies both utterly “now” and refreshingly timeless. Music for the masses, indeed.

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MATT THROWER

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