Temporary Pleasure by Simian Mobile Disco

Temporary Pleasure, Simian Mobile Disco's second album, hit UK shops on 17 August 2009 through Wichita Recordings, two years after Attack Decay Sustain Release. James Ford and Jas Shaw, who had started the project in 2003 as a DJ sideline to their four-piece band Simian, cut it across 2008 and 2009 in their own East London studio, squeezing sessions in around a world tour of DJ sets and live shows. Ford produced.

This time the doors swing open to singers. Beth Ditto of Gossip and Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip drop in, and the lead single "Audacity of Huge" hands the mic to Yeasayer's Chris Keating, who yelps his way across its lurching, rubbery groove. Underneath, it's still the duo's analogue machinery doing the heavy lifting: warm, squelchy electro and tech house that sounds built by hand and tuned for the small hours.

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