They draw their noise riffs from the same 15-year-old Tantra songs that still inspire today's Eurodance, but maybe thanks to the utterly clueless, happy pout achieved by their female lead voice, they never sound boringly profound or archaically maudlin. Which means that though they won't mean much to Enigma fans or searchers after the next Crystal Waters, they'll rescue anyone who can't wait for Blondie to come back or for Boy George to stop acting the pompous fool.

-- Michael Freedberg