Idiot Glee, “Trouble at the Dancehall” (mp3 single)

This appeals to me the same way that Danger Mouse’s extraordinary new Rome disk appeals. There’s a sense of genre recreation—in this sense, ‘80s New Romantic pop—in the service of a whole new expression that has nothing to do with what this sort of music might have originally meant. In short, this is dance music that doesn’t oblige you to dance, that instead seems to be relating a short that happens to be taking place on a dancefloor. People who can dance to anything will of course dance to it, but that’s not the point. For the rest of us, this engaging atmospheric indie introspection.

“Trouble at the Dancehall” is from the forthcoming full-length Idiot Glee album Paddywhack. This song premiered on the You Ain’t No Picasso site.