On first inspection, Robots in Disguise - Dee Plume and Sue Denim - are pictured on the sleeve of We're in the Music Biz wearing the regulation tight shirts and skinny ties of new wave. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that they are naked - but for some artfully applied body paint. Similarly, on first inspection, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Robots are just shouty chancers with a useful profile-raising connection to the current big noise in television comedy, the Mighty Boosh. Yet, on closer inspection of this, their third album, it quickly becomes obvious that they have become rather excellent electro-punks, specialising in cunningly interwoven call-and-response vocals that add extra hookiness to their hooks, whether on the ominous synth-rock of The Tears or on the bubbly pop of Can't Stop Getting Wasted. Fun, fun, fun.
President RIDGET3