Imagine

Imagine

Pig & Dan [Cocoon]

7 September, 2007 | 2.52PM

• Section: Music Reviews
• Written by: Lee Smith

Pig and Dan’s straight-ahead synthiness and emotive melodic flourishes may be a little on the polished side for those who like their sounds a bit more rough, but for fans of glistening, pumped-up Tech house and Techno, ‘Imagine’ is something of a treat.

This album’s tautly sprung dance floor prowess offers just the right levels of drama and feeling throughout its nine tracks.

The first track, ‘Sweet September’, is as inviting and optimistic as an album opener should be, with scuttling FX transforming the liquid melody lines into endlessly spiralling patterns, while a tightly-wound groove locks it down in style.

The rest of the album sees the duo plough on into physical, emotive territories with aplomb – ‘Sly Detector’ has a white-hot string section straight from the next century, ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ buzzes with dewy-eyed frustration and ‘Moths’ is the kind of heavy-swinging rattler that the likes of Adam Beyer, Joel Mull and Alexi Delano are renowned for.

Invigorating, well-made and a dead-cert for dance floor action of many varieties, ‘Imagine’ draws you in both as a fully cohesive album, and as a club-orientated series of DJ tracks.

It’s exactly the sort of thing Cocoon is really good at – sharp, designer techno with an engagingly accessible undercurrent.

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