Simian Mobile Disco
Temporary Pleasure - Wichita
FILTER Grade: 81%

Temporary pleasure on overdrive: Lead single “Audacity of Huge” combines SMD’s trademark quirkiness and a killer vocal by Chris Keating of Yeasayer into one monster club track. Several other collaborations are successful (including Jamie Lidell on “Off the Map,” Young Fathers on “Turn Up the Dial”) but not mind-blowing. Efforts here lack urgency and a necessity to blow the doors off the club apparent on previous releases. Coming from the duo who created “Animal House” (to this day the most played track in my iTunes by far), I’m a little underwhelmed.