Album Review: Kele - Trick

Kele continues to swap Bloc Party’s guitars and indie rock attitude for synths and drum machines on Trick, his second solo album.

Produced with the assistance of Armani XXXchange it brings the singer’s introspective pop love songs together with the bounce of solid thumping house beats and deep rubbery bass for maximal dancefloor kicks. Yasmin Shahmir divas it up on the duet, First Impressions, while Coasting and My Hotel Room feature more of a dubby London bass sound. Kele minimises the sometimes camp excess of House for an album of aggressive beats combining with his internal emotional lyric drama.