Simply, "Blitz Gazer," the new album from French duo DAT Politics, is a lot of damn fun. DAT Politics have been around for over a decade and "Blitz Gazer" is something of a reboot for the band. These stylized pop confections grind their way into your head with their insanely catchy hooks and big fat beats. It's a tried-and-true combination but DAT Politics absoultely kill it on "Blitz Gazer." From the anthemic leads on "Switch On" to the auspicious, '80s-tinge of "Between Us," they manage to cover a lot of ground. Sure, every song here has a heavy pop-bend to it, but the songwriting is so good and the execution so flawless that this is head & shoulders above all the pretender-pop records that come out every other week. Hints of modern R&B bleed through the chaotic and bizarre "Corpsicle" - one of the album's standouts - which lead into the robotic haze of "Melt Down." Plus, I'm a sucker for layer-upon-layer of vocoder and DAT Politics play that trick in spades. I think the reason this album stands out so much in the end is that there's an ambivalence that pervades the entire album and it really, really works. You get the feeling that these two could not give a fuck and are just having fun, doing whatever they want - everyone else be damned. It's their attitude and talent as songwriters that make "Blitz Gazer" such a good time and an album you'll return to over and over. Oh, and this was recorded in Berlin which somehow says it all. - User-contributed text is available under