(Single from as-yet unnamed future album)
After a single second of listening, you might be forgiven for thinking a dull remix of Icona Pop’s “I Love It” is being beamed into your brain. If you hold out a for a while longer, you will discover instead, that the Swedish Euro-pop duo have been completely upstaged by Neon Jungle, who take the synth-pop of 2013 in the path of natural evolution, pushing forward a sound pioneered in the early 1980s, with super-sharp production and subtle hip-hop traits that bounce around in the chorus’ vocal refrain, resurfacing later in a dubby splutter of off-beat keyboard beats around the 1:20 mark. “Trouble” does everything that dance/pop music should be doing, by way of an interesting chord progression that changes when you least expect it, giving the main hook a slightly sinister edge, which is accentuated by a rarely-successful case of poorly-spoken vocals, whose duff pronunciations only reinforce the transmogrifying synth-sound (which started with barely understandable German artists Kraftwerk anyway!) Good stuff if a tad insipid.
★★★
Versions of "Trouble"
Album/Single Version - 2:32
Fear Of Tigers Remix - 4:05
Monsieur Adi Remix - 5:32
Patrick Hagenaar Remix - 3:01
Sharoque Version - 3:48