“Just Let Go” opens with a more traditional dance beat than we’re used to hearing from electroclash/art-wank heroes Fischerspooner, and it is just the first of many indicators of the duo’s Second Phase. The next is Casey Spooner’s verse-chorus-verse-chorus lyrics, along with what seems to be actual MEANING in his words. Not that I’m going to presume to know what they are. And really, who cares? FS are about weird performance art fun and dancing.

The third indicator is a guitar. That one instrument, previously conspicuous by its absence, fits in extremely well among the traditional Fisherspooner arsenal of hypnotic electro grooves, overproduced hi-hats, WTF vocals and Nintendo melodies, making “Just Let Go” a contender for FS’s most danceable track yet.

Despite its immense hip-gyrability, the track is considerably less interesting than previous epics “Sweetness” and “Emerge.” Before, Spooner’s voice played the role of any other instrument; just another component in a meticulous electronic puzzle of a song. “Just Let Go,” while great fun, would seem to suggest that Spooner’s become more confidant as a singer and lyricist, and that the band might be taking a more traditional pop turn. Hopefully that’s not the case, but we’ll have to wait for the new LP Odyssey to find out for sure. In the meantime, you’ll have to just let go and get your art-fix from the outstanding Thin White Duke Mix by Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont).

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