Boys Noize — +/-

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Few artists bridge chart pop and underground club culture quite like Boys Noize. The Berlin-based DJ/producer native, born Alex Ridha, is as happy commanding festival main stages as he is dropping vintage acid house at subterranean after-hours joints. Though he won a Grammy in 2021 for his production on Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” (and nabbed a previous nomination for 2020’s “Midnight Hour”, with Skrillex and Ty Dolla $ign), his 2021 album <i>+/-</i> (pronounced “Polarity”) finds Boys Noize happily turning his back on the spotlight. Some of the album’s best songs reimagine old-school club aesthetics in unexpected ways: “Love & Validation” pairs house beats with gothic synths and Kelsey Lu’s Soft Cell-like vocals. “Girl Crush” plays Rico Nasty’s coquettish vocals off grinding, distorted techno. And “Affection” applies Boys Noize’s characteristically chilly palette to the hot-blooded sound of classic freestyle.<br /> Ridha completed many of the album’s tracks during the pandemic, and a fierce nostalgia for the pleasures of dancing is palpable: The vibe throughout is sexy and slightly sinister, shot through with the electrifying expectations of a first visit to a particularly eye-opening nightclub. On “Nude”, Estonian rapper Tommy Cash sings, “I wish we were all nude,” over a pounding techno beat, giving voice to clubbers’ desire for a long-overdue communion. But many of these songs got their starts long before COVID shuttered clubs; “All I Want”, an ecstatic house anthem featuring Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, goes all the way back to 2011. That Ridha rescued the long-lost track from a broken hard drive makes its placement here feel all the more auspicious. Full of sleazy, slow-motion tracks steeped in EBM and ’90s techno, this is Boys Noize’s love letter to late nights on low-lit dance floors, bodies heaving in sweaty unison.

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Boys Noize

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  1. Close 4:20
  2. Love & Validation 4:08
  3. Girl Crush (feat. Rico Nasty) 3:48
  4. Greenpoint 3:24
  5. Polarity (feat. Ghost Culture) 3:52
  6. XYXY 3:43
  7. Affection 3:32
  8. All I Want (feat. Jake Shears) 3:09
  9. Detune 3:46
  10. IU (feat. Corbin) 4:11
  11. Xpress Yourself 4:45
  12. Sperm 4:47
  13. Nude (feat. Tommy Cash) 3:48
  14. Ride Or Die (feat. Chilly Gonzales) 3:43
  15. Act 9 (feat. Vinson) 3:28