Calvin Harris - I Created Disco

Hey, so lets talk about this album that came out in the US recently. Sound good? no? too bad.
When giving your debut album a title like: "I Created Disco" and putting songs on this album where the chorus might go something like this: "I get all the girls/ I get all the girls" you better be damn good. Calvin Harris is, luckily, damn good.

The album starts out with the song "Merrymaking" some sort of LCD SS Jamie Lidell hybrid about taking drugs at what is presumably Calvin Harris' house. Not sure how I should feel about this but I can tell you one thing, the kid can groove. Without his cocky attitude Harris might not really amount to much but this is exactly the kind of 'tude that dance music needs right now, especially in the wake of groups like Justice and Simian Mobile Disco. On "The Girls" he follows the ultimate recipe for a dance song: simple repitition. But unlike most dance hits out right now, he's got a verse telling some weird story and then one of the best choruses imaginable. Also, he is not afraid to tell girls how to dress, on "Colours" you better have some colour in there. As the album goes on it falls into that new-rave style dance stuff all you kids are into these days. For example "Disco Heat" could have easily been on Mylo's Destroy Rock n Roll. This album's main strengths are it's diversity and it's ability to seemlessly blend together the last 25 or so years of dance music.