Fur Trade
Dark Celebration
(Light Organ Records)
4/5
Victoria’s Steve Bays and Parker Bossley (both ex-Hot Hot Heat) are back with Fur Trades’ second album after a decade-long absence, and it’s a rockin’ good time.
Dark Celebration is filled with 10 chaotic, funky, fun, feel-good tracks. It’s music you can blast in the car: turn the volume up and just feel the beat. They incorporate those nostalgic ’80s psychedelic, synthesizer, disco-club sounds into the tunes with an indie-pop twist.
With its poetic, dark lyrics hidden behind upbeat sounds, Dark Celebration truly lived up to its name. At first, I was unsure of some of the tracks, as this sounded different from what I expected, but after giving it a couple of minutes Bays’ voice took me back to a familiar place.
It’s safe to say this album will get the duo back on the charts, with songs like “LOL Trash” already on the playlists of radio stations, and rightly so.