Before house, trance, garage, deep house or any of the sub genres arrived, there was disco. Just disco. It meant anything you could dance to, from pop to R&B; if it had four-on-the-floor played hard and you could move to it, it counted.
Lack of Afro leans right back into that era: old school, authentic modern disco with harmony, strings and solid beats — though sadly without the high pitched tom (on the first beat of every bar) from Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell”, which still feels to me like the most disco song ever (I’ll give you the Bee Gees, though).
On the plus side, Lack of Afro doesn’t sound like any disco era star you might think of, drifting somewhere between the Bee Gees and soul with the occasional slice of cheese. The downside is… Lack of Afro doesn’t sound like any disco era star you might think of, which means there’s nothing especially distinctive here, just the sound of nostalgia. Any one track would sound great on a dancefloor (or while sneaking a quick pint before heading to the disco), but 14 in a row gets a bit samey.
Flevans (always reliable) and dance for the masses favourite Barry Can’t Swim both contribute production.
TLDR: feel good retro disco, no bad tracks, evokes the ’70s, goes on a touch too long.
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