The Presets - Apocalypso

Despite the hideous cover this album is awesome! When I first got it I played it non-stop and loved every track, now I'm slowing down a bit just so I don't overplay and get sick of it. They are and will always be a corner stone in Australian electro music and are already the measuring stick to which all other bands are compared. I’ve been a fan of The Presets ever since they started with Are You The One, I just wish they'd do something decent about their look.Whenever I have a photoshoot booked for a duo I’m always excited, images for duos are easy to make awesome because you've got both contrast and/or similarity to play with, think of Eurythmics, Petshop Boys, Siegfried & Roy (ha!), but The Presets seem to just raid their mum's dress up box and slap on a sour face every time they want to do a shoot.

Their videos aren’t spectacular, usually great production value but I couldn’t believe it when they went all kaleidoscope in My People...hmm hven’t seen that before in recent decades! If I Know You started off really great with the kid dancing down the street and then kinda went nowhere and by the end had become yet another tribal rip-off of what MGMT were trying to do.

Conrad’s Ratings –
album:9/10
videos to date:4/10
Fav tracks: Kicking and Screaming, This Boys In Love, If I Know You, Yippyo-Ay, There's also a great remix of This Boys In Love by Lifelike.

the presets site (cool idea, bad execution)
the presets on myspace
the presets on iTunes
modular people(Register for information about the 09 tour)