The Pop Corporation

If you’ve been yearning for the sounds of the turn of the Millennium – French House, Indie Sleaze, Dance Pop, Electro Clash and the rest – you’re not alone.

See, CFCF is clearly a fan of the nights out when people used to upload entire camera rolls of photos of nights out onto Facebook, of too much hairspray, Miaow Miaow and alcopops, and channelled it all into one very, very fun album.

On L.U.V. we hear about hot babes, killing yourself, drugs and more, cut with silly detached irony and good time production.

Musically, it’s all Ed Banger, Hot Chip, Alan Braxe and Fred Falke, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Oizo, Uffie, Kylie’s comeback bangers, and a bucket load of brain injury daftness that makes you want to go dancing in hot pants and sequined Converse knock-offs!

It’s pretty irresistible stuff, frankly, and well timed as things are A Bit Serious these days.

Stand out track, that marries all the good things about the source material, is ‘Bad Song’, which sounds like an instant classic to these ears, and all things being fair, should be in a cool Friday night DJ set real soon.

Elsewhere, you’ll hear some detached You Can’t Sit With Us silly billy stuff – “I love noise music and I love to read Dostoevsky – what I really love the most is fucking,” on ‘Ultra-Obscene’.

You’d roll your eyes on any other album, but on this, it’s just a total hoot!

The whole thing is super commercial and pop oriented, but that’s not to say this isn’t filled with spikiness and adult themes – this is akin to that glorious window when the likes of Dannii Minogue released ‘Put The Needle On It’ and everyone was reading PopJustice and pop went really slutty – a high watermark for going out dancing to chart music.

We’re all-in on this album and we want more like it. Bring on the silliness, bring on the dirty mouths and the dancing horses – sleazy pop and grotty house music has always been great, and CFCF knows it with this fabulous record.