Gang Gang Dance Dance Revolution

Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance have made some of the most beautifully-bizarre, ridiculously-good, totally-off-the-dial music of the past decade. All that's been missing is the classic album to cement that status. 2005's spiraling God's Money was close, but it may be the forthcoming Saint Dymphna that officially cements Gang Gang Dance's reputation.

Born from the same Brooklyn scene that gave the world Animal Collective and Black Dice —not to mention inspired 2008's crossover kings MGMT and Yeasayer— Gang Gang Dance bash out a fantastic mish-mash of distorted, half-crumbling synth sounds, ricocheting percussion, and the whooping and wailing voice of Lizzi Bougatsos. Liberally mixing all manner of different musics into one singular study in rhythm, Gang Gang Dance sound in thrall to superstitious primitivism and scientific revelation at once.

Due for release on October 21 (on New York's cult-ish The Social Registry in North America, and via iconic electro label Warp through Europe and Australasia), Saint Dymphna is loaded with dancefloor potential, promising a beautiful beat-orgy that may turn out to be one of 2008's most transcendent sets.

Saint Dymphna Track List:
1. "Holy Communion"
2. "Blue Nile"
3. "Vacuum"
4. "Princes"
5. "Inners Pace"
6. "Afoot"
7. "House Jam"
8. "Interlude (No Known Home)"
9. "Desert Storm"
10. "Dust"

Photo © [Josh Wildman]