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Bodyrockers have been getting a lot of play recently on music TV, radio and the new Grolsch advert, thanks to the success of debut single I Like The Way. Now Dylan Burns and Kaz James have their full-length debut album out, and it's a very quirky mixed bag of tunes indeed.
Opener Handel On Your Face has possibly the daftest song title of the year, but mixes classical music (hence the title's bad pun) and scuzzy dance-rock very well and sums up their mix-and-match approach perfectly. If you haven't heard I Like The Way, you will at some point, especially if you venture onto a dancefloor this summer. The guitar-led dance track has been a club smash all across Europe and should be a summer anthem in places like Ibiza, which can only be good news for this duo. But do they have the songs on this self-titled album to build on that success? The answer is 'maybe', as I Wanna Live follows pretty much the same formula of loud guitars, big beats and a shouty chorus, with a slightly rockier edge than I Like The Way. The 'do do do de do' refrains of You Got Me Singing is a rather less impressive offering, with the guitars to the fore again in a song that doesn't really get anywhere and takes a long time to not do it. It even shamelessly steals a line from Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone. The dodgy rock comparisons continue with ZZ Top homage Round and Round, which is a bit too cheesy for its own good. Dirty and New York City Girl almost sound like they could have been on Junior Senior's album and there are plenty of similarities between the two duos, although Bodyrockers tend to come off badly in comparisons. The funky For One Night Only fares much better though, mixing the rock and dance elements with style, hinting at how good the rest of the album really could be. Unfortunately, sleazy and cliche-ridden Keep Your Boots On sends the quality plummeting again, while industrial-sounding Dignity doesn't help matters either. Anthemic album closer Stuck In A Rut does at least salvage something, and you could certainly see it being a summertime hit, though whether Bodyrockers can be a lasting success is very debatable unless they figure out what they are good at and stick to it more closely than they have here.
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