Confident Music for Confident People cover

Confident Music for Confident People

Released

As a live act, Brisbane’s Confidence Man were certainly an arresting prospect when they first emerged in 2017. Twin front-persons Sugar Bones and Janet Planet (aka Grace Stephenson and Aidan Moore) spent almost as much time breakdancing through impressively choreographed routines as they did delivering the outfit’s Day-Glo house pop, flanked by two DJs/producers dressed head-to-toe in black, their faces covered by veils. The challenge when it came to their debut was to maintain that level of hi-NRG entertainment without the visual stimuli, something Confident Music For Confident People more than delivered. Stephenson’s bratty party girl persona could have easily grated over eleven tracks, but instead the pounding squelch and Technicolor throb of tracks like the Tom-Tom Club-like “My Boyfriend,” “Out The Window”’s Screamadelic wash and “C.O.O.L Party,” in which they channeled the spirit of ‘90s one-hit wonders Deee-Lite, proved irresistible.

Chris Catchpole

Recommended by

Suggestions
American Dream cover

American Dream

LCD Soundsystem
TLC cover

TLC

TLC
Walthamstow cover

Walthamstow

East 17
Working Men’s Club cover

Working Men’s Club

Working Men's Club
Vanities cover

Vanities

W. H. Lung
Music Complete cover

Music Complete

New Order
Low-Life cover

Low-Life

New Order
Visits From Future Technology cover

Visits From Future Technology

Shaun Ryder
Cracker Island cover

Cracker Island

Gorillaz
The Alchemist’s Euphoria  cover

The Alchemist’s Euphoria

Kasabian
This House cover

This House

Pale Blue Eyes
1989 cover

1989

Taylor Swift