Silver Columns - Yes And Dance

You'll read many reviews of this record emphasising the 2+2=5 surprise of The Pictish Trail and Adem teaming up to produce sleek disco music. In actual fact, Adem has long been associated with London laptop stars like Four Tet and Hot Chip, while Johnny Lynch is certainly no studio slouch. It's best to forget Silver Columns' respective CVs and enjoy Yes And Dance for what it is: a giddy, carefree rush of electro-pop. Brow Beaten and Cavalier, which have been bubbling up online for months now, are both unpretentious, wonderfully camp dancefloor hits – like Hercules & Love Affair interlaced with Mr Hopkinson's Computer. But there's subtlety to be found in more meditative cuts like Heart Murmurs and Columns, and fresh adrenalin to be extracted from the robotic title track and the warp-speed It Is Still You. Day jobs? Silver Columns may have to give them up for the time being, anyway. [Nick Mitchell]