6TH BOROUGH PROJECT
BOROUGH 2 BOROUGH (Delusions of Grandeur)
14/20
As the winter months wrap their frosty, frigid tentacles around our dancing feet, it’s cathartic to picture a utopian future where slow-burn, mid-tempo disco house has emerged as the nation’s favourite genre. In this wonderful world, 6th Borough Project have built a big, louche mansion on top of a sexy hill and filled it with happy people having happy times.
Borough 2 Borough (the duo’s second album) is on the stereo, pumping out the seductive snarl of U know U, the snakehips slo-mo strut of The Call Back and the laconic lament Back to Black. Borough 2 Borough is by no means a perfect album. The smooth Through The Night is perhaps just that little bit too nice n’ easy – and there’s a (very) thin line between semi-ironically appropriating the aesthetics of cheesy, sleazy funk and simply regurgitating it. Interestingly, the few moments which slide into darker territory provide a welcome contrast, with The Vibes providing one of the album’s stand-out moments: wonky disco that clatters along with an uncoordinated but enticing stagger.
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Words: Adam Corner
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