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After many tasty dancefloor teasings, that have held us all breathless and senseless within the opening seconds, the Dior Homme-donning dancefloor deity has at last served up what is likely to be the soundtrack and level setting stone for the next 5 years, with Sexor. The wait has proved fruitful and timeless in essence, as he steps right out of a Marc Jacobs catalogue and onto the dancefloor with all of the right ingredients to back up the name he’s made for himself over recent years with his string of golden covers and strokes of club rockin’ genius.

Sexor possesses all of the random sparks that fuse together and make life all that it is, with equal parts: heart, seduction, mayhem, comic book icons (‘Who’s That’ which was inspired of Batman character Vicky Vale), make-believe idols, dreams and all the glitz and glam you could possibly handle with a twist of random downtime in between.

It doesn’t suffer the ‘long-awaited debut’ syndrome, like so many other bands that take their time creating their first masterpieces these days, where punters can barely remember the name of the album or it’s single shining features beyond the first month or two. Sexor is more like that sweet awakening you get after over-clubbing yourself for several months and being overloaded by all that you hear, when somehow it all starts to sound like the same commercial/underground mash-up every night. It’s the breath of fresh air that comes through to blow you away with it’s pure electro pop anthems, bringing along an unflinching smile and unwavering belief that after all that’s been done with music, there’s still some territory yet uncharted, and there really only is one Tiga. One man to steal the show, one man who has to go back and put something new in what’s already been done, as he does yet again in his racy, electro-doused cover of Talking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The House’.

He’s managed to successfully pull-off making an album of perfectly crafted pop songs, but in his usual suave manner he’s been able to turn into a crossover record of the year, without losing his defining edge that’s had the club kids thrilled with his every move for the last five years. So it’ll be interesting to see just what kind of scene boundaries he goes on to break with this record. Working with Jesper Dahlback and Soulwax has proved a stronger force than we may have previously anticipated, for each track has it’s own moment of shining glory. It’s difficult to pick the singles from the album tracks, with each track deserving their own moment in the spotlight or under the strobelights.

Standout tracks for me include the sweet ode to his girl from the road ‘3 Weeks’ which rocks with a bass-heavy overload and glimmers with the simplicity of it’s lyrical content; time-proven grower ‘Good As Gold’ which over the last few months has grown on me to the extent that I wait with held breath for it to be dropped into a set and find my night incomplete without it. The album’s closer ‘Brothers’ is another sweet and anthemic ray of sunlight to end the album on, I can see this track being flogged on commercial and indie airwaves alike, lighting up dancefloors at night.

Sexor has landed and every inch of the wait has paid off with interest!