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Showcasing the melodious offerings from the album ‘Stainless Style’, Cate Le Bon joins Gruff and Boom Bip to provide clipped voyeurism to ‘I Lust U’, a song which can’t fail to induce body jerking, even if the sweat pit makes this a wee bit difficult. ‘Told Her On Alderaan’ is too cool for school, but also a fraction too heavy in its use of shoulder-padded generational influence. Nonetheless for a song based around Princess Leia fantasies it ain’t half bad, and fully embraces the pop idiom. In a c-list celebrity moment, the aptly “untamed disgrace”- Akira The Don - takes up spitting duties on ‘Sweat Shop’ which winds up sounding fairly minimal but no less pleasantly surprising. And the guests keep coming: Romeo and Angela of the Magic Numbers step up to offer harmonies on closer ‘Stainless Style’. The pair are inaudible, but this does nothing to detract from the sleek and repetitive tribal electro stomper. Tightly tuned, clean and club-hitting, there’s greater things afoot for these boys as long as they can withstand the summertime drive-along and resist absorbing up too much 80s. Gruff – put down the bryll cream, your hair is fine as it is.