Monsters And Silly Songs

Joakim is one of those producers that impossibly hip DJs always namecheck, but his debut album doesn’t deliver greatness. Sure, some of his ideas and arrangements are fresh, and his ability to fuse spacey rock and shiny dance floor moves on ‘Three Legged Lantern’ and ‘I Wish You Were Gone’ – whose intro “borrows” liberally from Duran Duran’s ‘Girls On Film’ – are impressive. He also delivers a decent version of the torch song standard, ‘Palo Alto’, but everything else is high falutin’ conceptual pish that’ll sound great over a few tall cappuccinos but useless anywhere else.