New band of the day: Body Language (No 1,119)

This bunch of alt rock hopefuls serve up an unlikely but satisfying disco soundHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Matthew Young, Angela Bess, Grant Wheeler, Ian Chang.The background: Far be it for us to be hyperbolic, but the best songs by Body Language – there are three of them and they handily comprise the opening numbers on their nine-track album – are in the same ballpark, quality-wise, as, respectively, early Madonna, the disco label Prelude's 1982 output, and CSS doing an impression of Dr ...

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