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Don Juan Dracula

Norway’s Don Juan Dracula self titled album reminds you it is okay to sing along to your Human League records with your friends in the room. DJD unashamedly draws from 80’s pop heroes Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran. The result is an album high in cheap pop thrills but backed with the intelligence not to cheat its listeners. Single and opening track Take Me Home has a throbbing bass line clearly recalling New Order’s Blue Monday. Sick Little World is what Interpol would have sounded like if they spent more time in the sun. Sober is a cheerful ode to getting off the sauce and some oblique reference about finding happiness. Henrik Lysell vocals gleefully careen from Ian Curtis faux brooding to sky rising choruses similar to the Scissor Sisters’s Jake Shears. While the rest of the group moves effortlessly from dance floor romps (Run Away with You) to hard rocking riffs (It’s the Bomb). Don Juan Dracula is nothing revolutionary. It’s just a great record for those wanting their pop music fun, disposable and with that extra touch of glitter.