Monsters & Not So Silly Songs!
Veering at all-points between some kind of pop-ish techno, boinging electro, early WARP-style tricky disco, and some leaden-footed indie-rocking, 30-ish Parisian Joakim Bouaziz's third album is anything but dull.

Sounding much like a more lo-fi version of the Gorillaz, Joakim flits around with the same genre hopping sense of glee on his latest album, MONSTERS & SILLY SONGS (love the artwork & the title btw). This is a record that is never content to repeat the same trick twice, a mish mash of styles and sounds, Joakim delivering a Technicolor explosion of sounds, ideas and styles at every available opportunity.

You may wonder how such massively incompatible styles could share the same record with any degree of harmony. And you won't be surprised to learn that they don't. Though its tempting to kick back and admire its range, Monsters & Silly Songs is custom-built for the download generation. All that's required is to ditch the rough, and dig for the diamonds.

Tracklist:
01. Monster #1
02. Sleep In Hollow Tree
03. I Wish You Were Gone
04. Three Legged Lantern
05. Monster #2
06. Lonely Hearts
07. Peter Pan Over The Bronx
08. Rocket Pearl
09. Drumtrax
10. Everything Bright & Still
11. Monster #3
12. Palo Alto
13. The Devil With No Tail
14. Monster #4
15. Love-Me-2
16. Tanabata

this is an indie guitar driven album, with the classical leanings of a film score – it’s brilliant but don’t go playing the whole thing at the afterparty of a techno rave-up or people might go seriously under.