Social Dancing by Bis

Social Dancing, the second album from Scottish trio Bis, came out on Wiiija in 1999, and it finds Manda Rin, John Disco and Sci-Fi Steven cleaning up their act without quite calming down. The guitars are in tune now, the drum machines glide instead of clatter, and the shouty cheerleader chants of old have been bent into proper melodies.

It's a restless record, lurching from punky thrashes to sleek trip-hop grooves and back, and critics split on whether that made it a scattered mess or a fun one; some missed the rebel spark of the early stuff. "Detour" is the track that reached the countdowns. The trio had formed in 1994, naming themselves after a lyric by The The, and would split in 2003.

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