(International DeeJay Gigolos/Inertia)

If you haven’t heard of DJ Hell’s International DeeJay Gigolos record label then you’ve obviously been living under a rock and need to get out more. If you haven’t heard of Mount Sims, one of the many artists on this particular label, then join the club and read on.

Mount Sims is Matt Sims, one of the new lights on this well-established and very productive Berlin-based record label.  Wild Light is Sims difficult second album and like a lot of music released on this label it is very, very ‘electro’... it is also very, very 80’s-synth sounding. And for me, being the wrong side of 30, this is its downfall.

Sims’s influences are very obvious, it’s as if he is trapped in a timewarp.  The whole album is very 80s,  very new-wave, and quite dark wave. Now, some people haven’t heard this type of sound before, so to them its gonna be something new and exciting. However, I own plenty of Bauhaus, The Cure, New Order and other 80s records so don’t really need to have another one, even if the beats on some of the tracks on this one are phatter and more dancefloor-oriented.  Been there, done that.  And it was good!

The other problem I have with this album is that it’s full of filler tracks. There are 15 tracks on the album but it would have been far more effective with about 5 or 6 removed. I don’t have a problem with an album that has a variety of sounds and moods both down and up tempo but this album’s down tempo/interlude moments are rather uninspiring and only detract from the album’s stronger moments.

And there are strong moments. Tracks like No Yellow Lines, Ergent No Ergent, Restless, Lights On and Wild Light all reveal Mount Sims understanding of what can rock a dance floor but there is much in between that is rather monotonously melancholic or just bloody irritating.

If you wish to explore this new-wave/80s electro sound then this album is worth a listen but if you already own a bunch of this kinda stuff then its probably not worth your while.