Cagedbaby - Will See You Now
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Last year it was Mylo who burst onto the dance scene and became a crossover success, so could it be Cagedbaby's turn now? Hippie child Tom Gandey is Cagedbaby (more about that name later on in the review) and his/their debut album comes packed with photos of people at the first Glastonbury festival and other similiarly tripped-out events, which gives you a clue to what lies within.

Will See You Now

No, it's not crazy folk music performed by bearded hippies dressed as vicars, but it is very blissed-out and quirky dance music that has already hit the aural G-spots of the likes of Rob da Bank and Eddy Temple-Morris.

The press notes claim that it sounds like: "the love child of a musical orgy involving the Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, Prince, The Beloved and INXS", which practically does the job of this entire review. There's certainly plenty of funky Prince-ness on Will See You Now.

16 Lovers not only has the title of a song that Prince must have at least thought about writing, but it even sounds like a slightly more electronic version of the Purple One's classic 80s hits. Forthcoming single Disco Biscuit is something almost entirely different, sounding more like a Mylo tune but without the weird people talking.

That Gandey provides the vocals for the album himself is certainly that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries, and it does give Will See You Now less of a cut-and-paste feel than other dance records. He might not have the world's best voice, but it does the job, even on the duller tracks, like the feels-like-it's-never-going-to-get-going-or-end Berlin.

There are a few too many of those moments when you wait for a song to perk up and do something, only to find that it isn't actually going to, but Cagedbaby manage to swerve around them quite nicely with some much better tunes like Golden Triangle and Hello There, with the former seemingly Gandey's audition tape for INXS: Search For A Star.

Released in the midst of festival season and adorned with those aforementioned pictures, Cagedbaby are clearly aiming for their target audience of dance music hippies. As for that name, Gandey even admits that he chose it so that this album would be next to the Chemical Brothers on the racks at HMV. So cynical for a hippie...