Album Info

Juicy Lucy (Bonus Track Version)

Electronic - 2012

While the advent of Parisian electro-pop acts like Phoenix and Air has spawned similar-sounding acts throughout the world, there’s nothing... more

Tracklist

1

One O Six

3:08 min
2

Elliot Uppercut

3:28 min
3

Set the Course of the Nîle

3:12 min
4

Hula Hoop

3:33 min
5

Saké

5:04 min
6

Avalon

3:39 min
7

Oh I

4:14 min
8

St Petersbourg

2:55 min
9

Juicy Lucy (Néeds a Boogieman)

3:43 min
10

La Dynamo

3:16 min
11

Starlighter

3:14 min
12

One O Six (A.N.D.Y. Remix) (Bonus Track)

6:25 min

About Juicy Lucy (Bonus Track Version)

While the advent of Parisian electro-pop acts like Phoenix and Air has spawned similar-sounding acts throughout the world, there’s nothing like the real thing. The Paris-based duo Jupiter oozes the musical chemistry of a quintet, starting with the sultry “One O Six,” where honey-voiced Amélie De Bosredon serenades her vintage Roland Juno-106 synthesizer in a played-up coquettish inflection. With its white-funk bass lines, neon keyboard tones, Vocoder, and vintage drum machines, “Elliot Uppercut” sounds like something out of the early '80s, save for modern production that shimmers with crystalline fidelity. A menacing melody in “Set the Course of the Nile” effortlessly blends disco and funk with indie-electro and synth-pop to create a gem that would rest perfectly between Studio 54–era mirror-ball soundtracks and the birth of new wave. But as period-correct as songs like the fetching “Saké” sound (even the video plays like a bygone Benetton commercial), it’s the band’s energy, confidence, and undying allegiance to this genre that let it pull this off with the feckless aplomb of its Parisian peers.