#660 Chic - Chic

Disco sucks!

Or so I've heard.

I'm not convinced this is really a disco album though, this sounds like funk to me, even if its smoothed-out slightly douchey funk*.

And you know what, it's actually pretty good; maybe it got in during some hair's-breadth pure phase of disco's weird mayfly-fast lifecycle. The band wants you to dance ("Dance, Dance, Dance" AND "Everybody Dance" as song titles) but its pretty classy about it, full of hush and coo. Sau Paulo in particular rolls on sunset horns with cloudstrip strings, all on top of some pretty darn clever bass, sounding like a great lost Air b-side.

There's hints here of things that could be terrible when blown out of proportion (something Chic themselves would do in an album or two) but here the restraint actually gives it a good dose of something you don't associate with disco: it's actually kind of cool 4/5

* and what is Falling in Love with You doing on this album? That is a goddawful song that isn't disco or funk or anything I want to hear.