VIRGIN
Live album from enduring Gallic dance stars. Their robot heads might prevent anyone seeing how much their faces might have aged, but on the evidence of this live album, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo could have an alternative career advertising moisturiser. Recorded at an excitable hometown show at Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy in June this year, Alive 2007 reveals that the duo still know how to target their electroweaponry straight at the adrenalin gland. The live setting fasts away the carapace of over-familiarity that has hardened round such tracks as One More Time and Da Funk, while the vocodered perfection of Around The World/Harder Faster Better stronger shows just what Kanye West sees in them. An alternative greatest hits compilation, it proves that the old sound of tomorrow can still make the grade today.
Victoria Segal
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