Confident Music for Confident People

Confident Music for Confident People is an electro pop album by Confidence Man. It offers nothing the world has not seen before by bands like LCD Soundsystem, Scissor Sisters, Deee-Lit, The Ting Tings and The Benelux have done before. Still it's such a pleasure when it works and several songs are great ("Try Your Luck", "Don't You Know I'm in a Band", "Boyfriend (Repeat)", "C.O.O.L Party", "Better Sit Down Boy" and "Fascination"). After each listen you will probably forget every song, but while it plays it's so much fun.

This was a whole lot of fun. Is it the highest musical form? No. But I sure enjoyed it.

I wasn't expecting to like this when it started but it really won me over. Fun and bouncy, but not simplistic. Almost like the Talking Heads and B-52s had a baby and it grew up to be Confidence Man. 4 stars.

Infectious and bringing the heat onto the dance floor. Cool Party, Bubblegum, All The Way, rad songs.

Remember when this came out, got to see the band live and it was an absolute blast. Sometimes music should be so tongue-in-cheek it punches a hole clean through to the other side, this LP felt so fresh and fun at the time and still brings a smile to my face. Doesn’t take itself seriously, knows what it’s about, and leaves before the joke gets stale. Not every track is the most memorable, and I’m not wholly sure it’s 1001-worthy, but this album has personality in spades and I was happy to be reminded of its existence.

Silly fun. Nothing that will probably stick in my mind for more than 24 hours, but it was alright. Strong 2/5.

Hey, I recognise a few of these tracks! I'd previously added Boyfriend (Repeat) to my saved tracks list in Tidal, so I'm not starting from a position of Confidence Man virginity. As this album plays along, I find myself chair-bopping, and that's a great thing for a cool Monday morning in the middle of June. Yes, it's absurdly pop-electro-dance-fur. It's bouncy and fun, and I'd take one of these over a hundred morose motherfucker albums stuffed with pretentious and oh-so-arty sad white boy music. It is important to remember that music doesn't have to be important.

7/10 pretty good! I don’t love dance music, but this was fun :)

Bright and dancey out of the gate and it never really slows down. This gives me Charlotte Adigery vibes, which I'm not hating. Gotta say this is some unabashedly bright music. Boyfriend (Repeat) is really fun -- vocals remind me vaguely of MIA and the instrumental are a blippity booping good time. Catch My Breath feels a bit like a mashup between LCD Soundsystem and Fatboy Slim. Far from "original" but I'll be damned if I'm not grooving. End to end a wonderful electro-dance-pop adventure. High 4.

That was mostly really cool, definitely had some weird parts like COOL party. But the electronics overall were quite funky in a great way. Fascination to end it was sweet, except for the part where he was talking about helicoptering his meat around.

Felt hyperpoppy at times, but in general I was engaged and bobbing along. COOL Party was funny. Feels like this could be a fun show to go to.

Something about this is so goofy but also entrancing in an LCD kinda way, especially Boyfriend (Repeat). COOL Party is an interesting one. I thought I hated it but I can't stop listening to it so I feel like it gets points for that. Low 4 and just a fun one.

Silly fun party dance album. Sassy lyrics.

I saw this group live last year at Way out West knowing nothing about them. It was entertaining and weird but it's not like they are doing anything super unique. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4.5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No

Confident Music for Confident People is a funny little album, at times it feels like they heard Oh Yeah by Yello and did a whole album but then sort of halfway through it grows up and becomes really bright and colourful, Out the Window and Catch My Breath are impossible not to bop to. Loses its way at times but is more fun than not and quirky good enough for a 3.

Disco con canciones pop agradables, algo de música electrónica y todas con ritmos no muy intensos. Puede ser un revulsivo para escuchar ocasionalmente. Me ha sorprendido, pero no me ha encandilado.

I like the music a lot; I got a little tired of the vocal style used throughout. This is a three, but it's a "I liked it quite a lot" high three, and I'd rather have this than angsty metal any day of the week.

Electronic dance music with an attitude. Fun

Dance-pop. Ni fu ni fa.

Might not break a whole lot of new ground, but good fun nonetheless.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Try your luck

This played as I listened

So the conceit here isn't exactly subtle, and of course that unsubtelty is part of the point. It's clever, and all delivered in a genial peppy electro-pop wrapper, and I really can't dislike it, but the heavily affected attitude did wear on me at length.

Sounds like a hundred other electronic "c.o.o.l. party" bands, basically. But it's so wink-wink "shallow" -- in a you-know-that-I-know-that-you-know it's-shallow sort of way (wink-wink) -- that aging hipsters may feel safe playing it cool. Wink-wink. At this point, I'm starting to think you got something in your eye, mate... Confidence Man is that type of act you can enjoy in a music festival while waiting for the big names to take the stage. They're fun on the moment, maybe, thanks to a wealth of endearing spoken-word vocal hooks. But you forget about their music altogether the next day. Many times, you get whiffs of some of the great acts of the past. Whiffs of the Deee Lite hits, whiffs of B52s, whiffs of LCD Soundsystem, whiffs of Orbital, whiffs of Screamadelica-era Primal Scream... Whiffs. And whiffs are not enough for this list, mate. No fucking way. Almost a decade later in that field of electronic party music, Charli XCX wipes the floor with such derivative drivel anyway. Only looking into the rearview mirror is not enough. You gotta make your shtick sound vital *today*. Confidence Man means "con-man", which leads to "con". The great dance music swindle. Except that this one will not con that many people in 2027. Go back to the great acts of the past, mate. Or find the ones that matter today. Don't get stuck in between. You're not looking "confident" listening to *Confident Music for Confident People*. You're just looking out of touch. And you still have something in your eye, I think, mate. Skip button, please. PS to the user who suggested this album: you got to teach me how to write all those wonderful micro-reviews. There I might have something to learn. 2/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 7/10 for more general purposes (5 for the production values and overall musicianship + 2 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 112 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 117 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 261 (including this one) ---- Émile, *quatre* nouveaux messages pour toi au dessus, du *Solid State Survivor* de Yellow Magic Orchestra au *Atrocity Exhibition* de Danny Brown

It was fine. Didn’t grab me.

Not my thing

2 - It's a little stupid, but it has something

Basic and boring

Pish