Efa Imports
2002
Data 80
About This Album
Håkan Lidbo has produced a lot of music for a lot of labels, yet rarely, if ever, has he taken such an unabashedly pop approach. The decision to do so seems timely, coming shortly after the early-2000s electroclash boom, which had been characterized by its synth pop-meets-disco template, much like Lidbo's one here. Yet the prolific producer leans more heavily toward the disco than synth pop side of the equation, and also does away with much of the in-your-face debauchery of electroclash as well, substituting instead his own lovey-dovey lyrics and vocodering them to excessive extremes. The resulting sound is surely glitzy -- disco-house dancefloor rhythms accentuated by androgynous robotic balladry -- and it's poppy, too. Few of the tracks break the four-minute mark (though nearly every one is ironically tagged as an "extended mix"), and the songs themselves are palatably broken into good old-fashioned verse-chorus-verse structures, and catchy ones at that. The first few tracks, all of them album highlights -- "You Are Always on My Mind," "Baby, I Can Forgive," "No More Lies (Remix)," and "Love Was Made for Two" -- showcase all of these aforementioned characteristics well.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4 and 9)

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