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Confident Music for Confident People is the debut studio album by Australian electro pop band, Confidence Man. It was released on 13 April 2018 and peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Charts. The album was written and produced by the band and was supported with an Australian and international tour that ran from February to August 2018. At the AIR Awards of 2019, it won Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album.
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This was a whole lot of fun. Is it the highest musical form? No. But I sure enjoyed it.
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.
Silly fun. Nothing that will probably stick in my mind for more than 24 hours, but it was alright. Strong 2/5.
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
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.
Infectious and bringing the heat onto the dance floor. Cool Party, Bubblegum, All The Way, rad songs.
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.
This played as I listened
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Try your luck
Might not break a whole lot of new ground, but good fun nonetheless.
Dance-pop. Ni fu ni fa.
2 - It's a little stupid, but it has something
Not my thing
Pish