Along with a whole host of groups, Poni Hoax are busy rehabilitating electroclash’s image, one great single at a time. The key to Hoax’s success is that it’s a rock group—unafraid of a little scum and dissonance. By the time the original version of the single is over, you have the insistent disco beat all over your face and the clouds of guitar and synthesizer all over your best dress. Instead of cleaning up: put on the B-side, Joakim’s Italo dub and revel in the amped up synth line for six minutes longer. Recommended.

Tigersushi / TSR 017
[Todd Burns]