Goose - Black Gloves

When it comes to continental electro-rock crossover, Belgium isn't the first nation that springs to mind (saving Soulwax and their mashup DJ alter-egos perhaps). Apparently however, things are changing, with the ornithologically-named Goose as evidence. Black Gloves is, unlike the rest of their forthcoming debut album, a vocal-free track that weighs heavily on the techno side of the scales. With its predictable, European-style trance-y knob-twiddling, heavily-diluted rock riff and repetitive sampled shouts of "hey!", Black Gloves aims for angular, floor-filling credibility but is just too blatant for its own good. Coming to a jeans advert near you. [Nick Mitchell]