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As a blissful anthem about facing challenges, standing your ground, holding your nerve and somehow winning in the end, their first single 'Fire With Fire' is a celebration of the human spirit but it's just as easily a celebration of the fact that Jake, Ana Matronic, Babydaddy and Del Marquis have, somehow, made it to a third album. While this album's predecessor, with its almost- convincingly upbeat title 'Ta-Dah', masked a sometimes quite downbeat mood, 'Night Work' always feels like dancing, but absent this time round is what Babydaddy describes as the "Muppety fuzziness". There are handclaps for example, but, crucially, there are no jazz hands. The maudlin feel on the last album is, Jake says, "replaced now by a much more sinister one - which I LOVE. It's sinister in a very sexual, pleasure-filled way. A lot of the album is about going past your limits and going too far". The album therefore begins with the ultimate going out song 'Night Work' then ends eleven tracks later not with a whimpering ballad but a dance floor-shaped big bang in the form of hands-in-the-lasers blowout 'Invisible Light'. While most albums tend to wind down in their final moments, this is the night out that refuses to end, but it's fair to say it took its time getting started.
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