Chromeo – She’s In Control

It’s not immediately clear if guitarist-singer Dave 1 and synthman/talk-box maven P-Thugg of Chromeo are goofing on or paying tribute to early-Eighties club music. But their debut, She’s in Control, is such a big disco-boogie free-for-all that you don’t really care. Drawing on the synthesizer-heavy funk pop of acts such as Klymaxx and Sylvester — the stuff on the radio and played in clubs during hip-hop and house music’s formative years — the Montreal duo takes you back to a time when rollerskaters wore short shorts and danced in New York’s Central Park. “Mercury Tears” sounds like the soundtrack to some robot death scene from a lost B movie. Most important, the whole thing is actually funky; Chromeo will make everyone at your party dance, even if that dance is the worm.

This article was featured in the March 2004 edition of Rolling Stone.