My Desire

Italian three-piece Firefly put out their second album in 1981 and it’s another burnished set of smooth electro-funk and Italo-disco. Apparently, the switch among bass players from flat-wound strings to round-wound strings in the early 80s resulted in that distinctive tinny 80s bass sound, which is prominent on all these tracks, along with synthetic kick drums and big disco clap tracks. The songwriting in Italo disco was often of mixed quality, here though it’s pretty good, and the result is a polished, glossy album, a cosmopolitan, transatlantic hybrid of US soul and Italo-disco.