Frozen Red

Great Italo-disco / synth-pop album that despite the sometimes chirpy, cheery synth riffs and major chords has an extremely attractive air of yearning hanging over it. Aside from the vocals, the entire album is electronically generated with rigid, tightly sequenced percussion and synth parts carefully assembled into interlocking patterns. Frozen Red’s big track is the atmospheric secret dance floor classic “Walking In The Neon”, a patchwork of synthetic chimes, chord washes and rubbery buoyant electronic percussion, but there are plenty more gems here. The Kraftwerk-esque “Talk To Me” goes to euphoric places that Kraftwerk themselves never ventured to, “Le Planét Nous Régarde” carefully unfolds into enigmatic, stately Euro-pop while “Fly Away” is just a very pretty synth song. Ignore the garish cover, Frozen Red is pleasantly moody and melancholy.