{"product_id":"happy-mels-apero-cd-506017495933","title":"Happy Mels - Apero [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eHappy Meals is the Glasgow-based duo of Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, life-partners since high school finding expression in cosmic form. Originally from the Scottish borders, Rodden and Cook (also of the Cosmic Dead) began Happy Meals in a flurry of experimentation at Glasgow's creative hub the Green Door Studio. Initially the result of a free music production course, Apéro sees the pair embark on a blissful voyage into a love-fueled, outward-looking hedonism. Both artists operate machines and sing but it's the dominating Franco-Scottish lingua-franca of Suzanne Rodden that imbues a sense of seductive fun to the album. Their first recorded statement, Apéro is an instant rush of Kosmiche-disco, utterly addictive and inviting. The epic \"Crystal Salutation\" welcomes the listener in with analogue synthesizers delayed into the horizon before \"Electronic Disco\" ushers in distorted drum machines and Rodden's disco-at-sunset vocal. Album stand-out \"Altered Images\" is a pop-masterpiece, mixing French \/ Italo disco, acid basslines and a sense of Scottish optimism. \"Age of Love\" is unabashedly the feeling of being up until daybreak, with layered synthesizers climaxing all-around. Retro-futuristic visions abound on the beat-less \"Visions of Utopia\" before closer \"Le Voyage\" reprises back the cosmopolitan disco, playing out the perfect club night in ecstatic fashion. It's an enchanting, inclusive vision; everyone is invited, the future is bright. Just say yes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrystal Salutation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElectronic Disco\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAltered Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Age of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVisions of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLe Voyage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"39","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50787423420712,"sku":"506017495933","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/2826108.jpg?v=1763992057","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/happy-mels-apero-cd-506017495933","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}