Supreme Beings of Leisure: Divine Operating System

Reviewed by RUSSELL BAILLIE

(Herald Rating * * * )

The second album by the cosmopolitan Los Angeles quartet is another collection of high frivolity factor dancepop.

Less innovators than renovators, SBOL's early offerings here include recycled disco (especially the big-strings opener Give Up and the squelchy funk of Divine), electro-lounge tunes, and a couple of tracks which sound more than 80s enough to have you digging out those Dee-Lite and Neneh Cherry albums to make a nostalgic night of it.

Inevitably, even powered by the hearty voice of Geri Soriano-Lightwood, it loses its attractive initial giddiness as it heads towards the second half and it tries to go moody and downbeat — hard to take seriously after its day-glo opening. Still, dance-lite suitable for happy hour.

(Palm/Festival)