TeenagerThirteen
2007
Conjecture about whether Teenager’s Thirteen – the long in the making project fronted by Pnau’s Nick Littlemore, and Pip Brown of New Zealand’s Two Lane Blacktop, assisted by a raft of distinguished guests – is rock or dance is superfluous. It’s a pop record, albeit a particularly exotic species that equally suggests creative guile and hints of self-indulgence. There’s nothing here as remotely crass as Bodyrockers’ ‘I Like The Way’ – the norm is the smooth interplay of ‘Alone Again’, where a plunging New Order bass offsets the silken backing vocals. Littlemore’s real achievement may be to hold the project together in the presence of competing session hands: Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley inject urgency into the opening ‘Liquid Cement’, while Thierry Muller collaborates on a series of lush Parisian soundscapes.
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