Fancy Footwork
For Chromeo, fancy footwork means wooing girls with lines like, “Never mind an SMS/What you need is a sweet caress.\" Their second album is a musical Groundhog Day, with our heroes endlessly reliving that awesome afternoon in 1988 when they discovered Hall & Oates and stole their first kiss. But this is serious funny business: The sax solo on “100%” is epic, and the synth that anchors the title track is massive, making for a record that\'s as funky as it is playful and goofy.
Follow-up to 2004's She's in Control again finds the electro-pop duo successfully mining the 80s for inspiration, incorporating talk boxes, 808s, canned percussion, and Prince-style atmospherics.
Back with a slicker set of moves and immaculately groomed hooks, on Fancy Footwork Chromeo are in even more control of their sound than they were on She's in Control.
Chromeo was never meant to be considered a serious musical act, skating that fine line between witty kitsch and cheese-filled retro grooves.