Comprising core songwriting team Debbie Harry (vocals) and Chris Stein (guitar) along with drummer Clem Burke and a few newbies, they have dispensed with the heavy sequencing of their more recent efforts.
The result is lots of guitar, big pop tunes and propulsive, clap-along, bar-band rhythms, albeit with more than a few echoes of the garage-scuzz-meets-disco vibe that worked so well for them in the late ’70s.
• Blondie. Pollinator. Liberator.
• Three and a half stars (out of five)
Single download: Already Naked
For those who like: The Cars, The Killers
— Shane Gilchrist
