Azari and III

The much-anticipated homecoming of the international dance stars

Recent months have seen the club boast numerous big-name DJ bookings so a performance from the Canadians seemed very refreshing and the addition of Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules & Love Affair as support act made this scenario even better.

Though I then had the misfortune of missing both - the reasons somewhere between heinous stage clashes and festival excess shown in my etiolated, confused face.

Loose-limbed decidedly after-hours grooves are the order of the night on their eponymous debut album a record that holds its own alongside works by Hercules And Love Affair and Jessica 6.

It's hard to know where the costumes came from but to call them over-the-top would be an understatement.

At this point the increased availability of information via alternative mediums has created this amorphous catch-all an ideology that seems more defined by distribution channels and various tastemakers than any sort of unifying sound.

Toronto, Canada