It’s seven years since the Belgian brothers Dewaele unleashed their fine, largely instrumental and foot-stomping Essential album on the world, but they’ve given short shrift to any ideas of sitting on their laurels in the intervening time. Their new album, All Systems Are Lying still points emphatically towards the dancefloor, but it brings plenty of new flavours to their sound and is considerably more song-based than its predecessor.
This isn’t to say that Soulwax have gone down the standard guitar, bass and drums route on their new album. Their sound remains emphatically guitar-free in fact and still sits very much in electronica territory despite their three drummers. There are, however, shades of LCD Soundsystem and Depeche Mode evident especially on…