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YELLO
THE EYE
RADIKAL
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Some will remember the Swiss duo Yello for "Bostitch," a major disco hit in 1980, when disco, so the popular wisdom has it, had died. There’s nothing on this latest of many CDs — 17 are listed on the All Music Guide Web site — to equal that first hit’s moody funk, dream-disco atmospherics, and dark vocals. Still, the blissed-out female voices, deep-forest sound effects, and cool nighttime orchestrations of these 14 new tracks from Boris Blank and Dieter Meier sustain an otherworldly impressionism recalling Deep Forest and Enigma, and at times even Kraftwerk’s humor and Sarah Brightman’s extravagance. Yello once broke new ground in blending soulful funk with transparent Eurodisco textures; now they’re content with established idioms. You get three female-male vocal duets — "Time Palace," "Don Turbulento," and "Unreal" — plus the dreamy, intense percussions, tribal chants, and rhythms of "Indigo Bay," "Bougainville," and "Tiger Dust." And "Planet Dada" and "Nervous" conjure that spasticky Kraftwerk humor just in time to put a refreshing silly smile on the face of dance music.
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