Its Album Time

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After a decade of releasing singles, remixes, and edits to large amounts of acclaim among in-the-know dance music fans, Norwegian whiz kid Todd Terje finally made an album of his own in 2014. Its Album Time is a pretty self-explanatory title, though it could have been called I Love Many Different Styles of Dance Music and Will Proceed to Put My Warped Spin on All of Them. Well, that one would have been a mouthful, but it does sort of explain what was in Terjes head as he whips from one style to the next over the course of the records 12 tracks. Stylish neo-disco is what hes best known for, and if any one style dominates, its that. Bouncy dancefloor fillers like Strandbar, Inspector Norse, Swing Star, Pt. 2, and the light-as-a-feather Oh Joy set the dials for the heart of the disco ball and form the shiny center of the album. Terjes unerring grooves and the sophisticated and melodic sounds he lays over the beat make them the easiest tracks to love. He also heads off the floor and into the chillout lounge (Leisure Suit Preben) and the tiki room (Preben Goes to Acapulco), and gets lucky with a guitar-strumming electro 80s style (Delorean Dynamite) that begs to have some vocoder vocals over the top. The sweeping, ice-colored synths get the job done fine anyway, and it seems like a path Terje would be wise to follow on future releases. [Its Album Time was also released on LP.] ~ Tim Sendra