Confidence Man & Daniel Avery - On & On (Again) (2023) [Original Post]
It had to happen. It's been threatening to for a while. At long last, the heavy weight of eighties nostalgia that's held pop music (and culture at large) in a death grip has finally broken -- moving on to the nineties. Maybe even the early two-thousands! There's a hit of awkward, self-consciousness to the presentation of Confidence Man that isn't quite the earnest, slick cool of the period it's emulating. Maybe it's all parody, but it doesn't really seem like it. Either way, this is a throwback that hits its mark well enough to break the uncanny valley of it all. I might not stay on this ride, but I'll at least enjoy taking this one. Another entry in the season of new music, and a reminder of the turn-of-the-millennium dance music that evaporated during the mid-2000s apocalypse.
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