You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time

From the near silent intro that starts ‘Five Year Plan’, before the distant vocals echo around the frenzied pace, guitars not missing a beat are all mixed with a slightly unpolished finish which increases the urgency and appeal. With a measure sustained through all the frantically chaotic breaks in ‘Downtown Mayors Goodnight Alley Kids Rule’, which serve to enhance the pogo dance-punk splinters spitting out at every angle, jagged and angered, it’s a case of watch out or you might get hurt - this is a band blossoming with their new found accolades.

Being brought to life kicking and screaming, Becky Ninkovic’s vocals cascade and wrench ‘Lose All Time’ in every direction: vocals warble gently in to the formidable funked-out epic ‘Giant Hands’ with layered turns and a slower break, while the double time drumming force presses on the yelping vocals of ‘Moon’. Their most striking appearances come as the retro underground funk fizzles from the mouth, plucked out of the club scene amid whirling lights and a packed dance floor as little by little YSP!WSD! twist and turn ‘Dance Floor Destroyer’ in to Flashdance for the 21st Century until stardom ultimately beckons.

A nostalgic, glam-jive ripped apart and pieced back together as an abstract gutter dance project, ‘Teenage Hit Wonder’ works a charm in contrast to the ominous piano and delicate timbre proving a shock to the system as, the anomaly of the album, ‘You’re Almost There’ increases gradually to a summit which is sustained through the track. By the standards set, ‘Opportunity’ is a slow number, packed with empathetic vocals and yet still there is an insatiable beat forcing its way out, spinning endlessly round the room leaving a wake of debris as the pace is increased.

As a tamed electronic renaissance finale, ‘Quiet World’ pulls together tremendously their well flexed dance muscle and unhinged vocals to a calmer setting, still threatening to burst in to life at any minute but restraining with style to close an album that bucks the one-record-only tags which plague many a new band. Thankfully progression and development are not obsolete concepts in Canada.