Review: Parralox – Metropolis

We’ve written much about how amazing Australia’s Parralox’s debut album, Electricity was. We chose it as one of the top 20 electronic albums of the decade and rightfully so. They captured the spirit of the golden era of synthpop better than almost anyone else out there with a particular homage to Yazoo and it worked beautifully. Their follow-up, State of Decay, saw a key line-up change and a change of direction and the results were comparably disappointing (with some exceptions like the terrific sleeper “Time”). So, now the prolific duo are back quickly with album number three. Does it lean more toward the exciting verve of album #1 or toward the more mundane, by-the-numbers #2?