The band even came with a kayfabe backstory. Completely extra, cool in their refusal to ever be bothered by people calling them uncool, simultaneously ironic yet weirdly sincere, and just so so so damn fun. A deranged concoction of Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, the first Le Tigre album, and alternately Junior Senior or Right Said Fred depending on the track. ![]() More singles would trickle out as the year progressed and 2018 hailed the debut album, Confident Music for Confident People, with the overall sound and idea of the project fully coalescing. Built around a bouncy acoustic guitar line, burbling scale-playing modular synths which grew in volume as the song progressed, not one but two immensely fun group hooks, and completely detached too-cool-for-this vocals dressing down a boyfriend who just isn’t doing it poor, overly talkative, a breakfast maker who doesn’t really pay attention to what she wants, a “repeat of what I’ve had before.” I was instantly hooked and spent weeks afterwards humming the song at all hours of the day. “Boyfriend (Repeat)” was a proudly cheesy, incessantly catchy, posturizing piece of 90s-remiscent alternative dance. ![]() ![]() In early 2017, my Spotify Discover Weekly threw up the debut single by an Australian pop quartet known as Confidence Man. Sometimes, very occasionally, the algorithm gets it right.
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