Client - 'Client' (Toast Hawaii) Released 18/08/03

Don't know about you but I have great difficulty trusting people with no heads and no names. People like Client for example who are mysteriously known as Client A and Client B, with a penchant for flasher macks and red stilletos. However, it is their shoe fetish which reveals their top secret mission: To find a heart for the tin man.

Their debut album sees the clinically cool lines of electro-pop collide with warm, uncompromisingly Northern tones to an undoubtedly unique effect. Leave your rose tinted glasses at the door lest they be ripped off and crushed under spikey heel. Forthcoming single Price of Love is one of the meatier tracks on the album, passing the cynicism test with flying colours  to a background of throbbing discoteque blips. Client's vocals (for arguments sake, let's call her Deirdre) have a husky "Thankyou for calling XXX babes" quality which seem to smear up the wall in the Daft Punk tinged Diary of an 18 Year Old Boy. But just when you thought you had their modus operandi all figured out, they start wittering on about things like destiny in Sugar Candy Kisses, proving that they do believe in a thing called love after all.

If you are a devout technophobe, this album is unlikely to convert you but for those into their digital delights, you will no doubt find their foul mouths and clean shirts refreshing.