Happy Meals Apero CD

Happy Meals is the Glasgow-based duo of Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, life-partners since high school finding expression in cosmic form. Originally from the Scottish borders, Rodden and Cook (also of the Cosmic Dead) began Happy Meals in a flurry of experimentation at Glasgow's creative hub the Green Door Studio. Initially the result of a free music production course, Ap?ro sees the pair embark on a blissful voyage into a love-fueled, outward-looking hedonism. Both artists operate machines and sing but it's the dominating Franco-Scottish lingua-franca of Suzanne Rodden that imbues a sense of seductive fun to the album. Their first recorded statement, Ap?ro is an instant rush of Kosmiche-disco, utterly addictive and inviting. The epic "Crystal Salutation" welcomes the listener in with analogue synthesizers delayed into the horizon before "Electronic Disco" ushers in distorted drum machines and Rodden's disco-at-sunset vocal. Album stand-out "Altered Images" is a pop-masterpiece, mixing French / Italo disco, acid basslines and a sense of Scottish optimism. "Age of Love" is unabashedly the feeling of being up until daybreak, with layered synthesizers climaxing all-around. Retro-futuristic visions abound on the beat-less "Visions of Utopia" before closer "Le Voyage" reprises back the cosmopolitan disco, playing out the perfect club night in ecstatic fashion. It's an enchanting, inclusive vision; everyone is invited, the future is bright. Just say yes.

1. Crystal Salutation 2. Electronic Disco 3. Altered Images 4. The Age of Love 5. Visions of Love 6. Le Voyage