Mirror – 13 mai 2010

MISTEUR VALAIRE 
Golden Bombay (Mr. Label)
With their third album, Montreal quintet Misteur Valaire deliver their best batch of blithesome, imaginative prog-pop, its buoyant grooves and silly samples recalling the jaunty Euro/Japanese lounge-funk of the late ’90s, though with a better ear for memorable melodies and its punchy quotient ratcheted up for a post-Ed Banger era. Endlessly inventive in its tones and timbres, Golden Bombay also affords vocal duties to Bran Van’s James Di Salvio (on the so-so retro rap “Ave Mucho”), gravel-piped Gigi French, a kids’ choir and more. Supremely yummy stuff. 8.5/10 Trial Track: “Brandon Marlow” (Rupert Bottenberg) CD launch at Club Soda, Tues., May 18, 5 p.m., free