The B52s get their groove back. This is brilliant surfy, clubby party-pop music from four sexy almost-pensioners who haven’t had an album out since 1992’s Good Stuff. Cindy Wilson and Kate Pearson sing sultrily and Fred Schneider does that speak-singy thingy that the Germans and pretentious opera buffs call sprechgesang and the results are really, really cool.
There’s little I can add, except that ‘Love In The Year 3000’ sounds exactly like something Flight Of The Conchords might do as a joke, containing, as it does, the awesome line “Tentative tentacles grabbing me, we’re making space love in zero gravity.” The B52s can molest me with their tentacles any day! (Metaphorically speaking. Literally that would be horrible).
Key Track: ‘Love In The Year 3000’