Tiga – Sexor / 2006 Turbo / 14 Tracks / http://www.tiga.ca / http://www.turborecordings.com / Reviewed 28 April 2007

“Welcome To Planet Sexor” should not have opened “Sexor”. Considering the sound of “(Far From) Home”, “Welcome To Planet Sexor is a non-start, and could conceivably move individuals away from approaching the rest of the album. Luckily for Tiga, “(Far From) Home” is a catchy, eighties-influenced dance track in the vein of other current acts like Chromeo and The Sounds. If it is believable, Tiga has adopted the earlier style more fully than either of the aforementioned acts, and the first full track is a single-worthy sound that will get individuals up and moving.

Tiga takes up the standard of Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boys, and New Order during the follow up to “(Far From) Home”, “You Gonna Want Me”. During this track, the synthesizers come larger than life, only decreasing in loudness and intensity when Tiga decides to grace eir fans with eir catchy harmonies. Two for two, Tiga seems to be within reach of a rare feat; creating a compelling dance album that does not have more than its fair share of slack on it. “High School” is another solid track with a synthesizer line that will give chills up any listeners’ spine, but Tiga decides to break up the momentum that ey had with “Jamaican Boa”, which is slow, only using vocals, and does its best to wreck the successes that Tiga has achieved on “Sexor” to this point.

Luckily, the high energy of “Louder Than A Bomb” removes much of the damage, giving individuals another reason to dance. Tiga really needs to delete these skits from further albums, as they decrease any energy that ey has built up, and to be honest, are not interesting in the least. “Sexor”, save for these skits, is a solid dance album, good even. I understand trying to break up the disc into different sections, but perhaps quick instrumental interludes or thematically-appropriate movie quotes would be better than the skits that are present during this disc. Tiga should be rocketing up the dance chartswith the tracks on “Sexor”, and I feel that subsequent albums will allow Tiga to do just that. While the tracks seem tio have an eighties flair, the arrangements of the songs are solid enough that individuals listening in during 2007 will be able to find many things that they like. “Sexor” is thus not dated, even if the skits provide much, much more trouble than they are worth.

Top Tracks: (Far From) Home, You Gonna Want Me

Rating: 6.4/10

[JMcQ]