With »Brighter«, the Danish disco-punk-trio WhoMadeWho continues exactly where they left it with their »Knee Deep EP«. When the EP was released in last year’s early summer, their connection to electronic music was much more detectable than today: Good-bye, guitars and rock’n’roll attitude! The change of label from Gomma to Kompakt has done the band good – because even though the previous album, »The Plot«, had got a few good reviews here and there, besides »Keep Me In My Plane«, there was nothing outstanding on it. Instead, on the »Knee Deep EP«, the likeable attention whores from Copenhagen were fresh and hungry again. On »Brighter«, WhoMadeWho are finishing the thought that they had cracked superficially on the mini-LP. Their third album has turned out to be repetitive, dirty and gloomy, even though there are still some dreamy yet driving anthems (»The Sun«) to be found on the record. As is the interplay between Jeppe Kjellberg’s rather simple voice and Tomas Høffding’s falsetto-singings, which has always been one of the band’s trademarks. In addition, tracks like »Never Had The Time«, »Greyhound« or the improvisational »Fireman« prove that WhoMadeWho don’t just write tracks to have enough to burn during their wild and furious live-shows. This band is always trying to develop further. If need be, even at the expense of hits that are rather hidden on »Brighter«. With just the term »Discopunk«, WhoMadeWho are not properly summarized, anymore.
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