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Layo & Bushwacka
NIGHT WORKS
(XL/BEGGARS GROUP)

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Fans of this British DJ-remixing duo’s big hit, "Love Story," will be surprised to find very few moments like it in their second CD. From the cool "Ladies and Gentlemen" to the delicately tribal "Shining Through" (with scratch-mix touches) and the Bollywood-ish "Sahara" all the way to the gothic "We Meet at Last," a hip-hop-inflected "All Night Long," and the trance-toned "Sleepy Language," Layo & Bushwacka’s music takes its cues from the tastes of alternative rockers, not Eurodisco adepts. For those who gladly recall the Sisters of Mercy’s Floodland album, the jungle lullabies of Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and Art of Noise’s banquets of atmospheric sound effects, Night Works pushes all the right buttons. But Layo & Bushwacka’s dedication to Eurodisco begins and ends with "Love Story," which is included here as the CD’s next-to-last track, almost as an "Oh well, we have to do it" encore appended to the show.

BY MICHAEL FREEDBERG

Issue Date: September 26 - October 3, 2002
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