Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.
As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.
Album: Business Casual (2010)
Artist: Chromeo
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I saw someone describe Chromeo as ‘Daft Punk if they were horny’, and while I can’t speak to how much the masked maestros got down, I can definitely see how that person arrived at the aforementioned conclusion. This music is, in many ways, an unabashed attempt at bump-n-grind music, made for the cornball within us all.
That, more than anything, is the biggest drawback to all of this - underneath some of the finest club beats of the 80s, genuinely awesome production, are the sort of verses that leave you wondering where the instrumentals on the album are. It’s a running theme with Chromeo - can the hooks outrun the words between?
I’m pleased to report that, most of the time, it does here - enough for one listen, though most of this admittedly will not be making any sort of sustained jump to a playcount. If you can look through the awkward overcoat, a lot of the meat here is genuinely fantastic stuff, addictive to the core with disco and funk influences most bands would die to emulate.
Rating: 8/10
Best Tracks: Night by Night
Worst Tracks: Don’t Walk Away
Daft Punk if they were horny, that’s hysterical! I think their awkward lyrics come across as warm and authentic in a world of prefab pop.