Never Never Love, Pop Levi
Everyone knows that to be hip in this day and age you need three things: style, trendy facial hair, and a cool name. Pop Levi has all three in spades (if you can somehow have an abundance of your own name...), and it reflects in his music beautiful, with his new album Never Never Love a glorious combination of funk, blues, psych, rock and pop in what is a stunning progression from his debut longplayer. While the first album was, as Levi describes it, full of humanity, his sophomore release has seen the human elements stripped back, and in their place a more robotic, but by no means rigid, feel has been implemented.
Opening with the repeaterrific Wannamama, Levi keeps up the funky pace with the subsequent title track, and then throughout the record with songs like Dita Dimoné, Fire On Your Feet, Mai's Space, Oh God, Everything & Finally, and Love You Straight, but what would a Pop Levi album be without, well, pop songs. Semi-Babe, You Don't Gotta Run, Calling Me Down and Fountain of Lies are just that, and they fit in beautifully amongst the hipper tunes, with Call The Operator serving as that one song which seems to linger in between both the pop and funk ends of the album's style spectrum. Pop is indeed a very funky guy.
Release: Album
To Cure: An empty dancefloor
Keywords: Pop
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