My only preset is making sure the loudness button is always depressed...
Julian Hamilton and Kimberley Moyes are the creative force behind The Presets. Their debut album 'Beams' was released in 2006 (which passed me by) accompanied by the singles 'Are You The One?', 'Down Down Down', 'Girl and The Sea' and 'I Go Hard, I Go Home' (which all also passed me by. What on earth must have I been doing in 2006?!). So far, so lovely.
After hitting the road for most of the past eighteen months, The Presets returned to the studio (the album is out later this year - I'll put a note in my diary so I don't forget) and 'My People' is the first single to be culled from that gaggle of slippery Pro-Tool pups...hmm...I'm not sure that that metaphor was entirely successful. I really do apologise...
Pounding drums, a fuzzy industrial bass synth, fizzing loops and voice-coded samples (think 'Heart' by Pet Shop Boys and you're pretty close) all combine to make 'My People' capable of kicking even the most reluctant barfly onto the floor. It's heavy, it's loud, it's ostentatious and it's fun. In short: it's the bastard son of Depeche Mode and Les Rhythmes Digitales. How cool is that?
It'll be interesting to hear 'My People' in the context of the complete album, but based on this evidence, the accompanying material should be pretty electropop-steady. Drop your cocks, grab your socks and hit that dance floor.