Lionrock's titillating traits are their timeless club sounds and organic textures. You can't pin any one song to a particular decade, city, DJ, or piece of electrical equipement. Some of the influences gleaned from a listen to An Instinct For Detection:

'60s coctail lounge
Bristol, UK trip-hop
Disco (in a good way)
Jamaican dancehall
Modern Parisian booty-drop music
Colorful spy-film soundtracks
Video game music
Soft funk jazz
Ghetto-blaster jungle

Lionrock's ability to ambiguously straddle the lines between "live" vs. "electronic" and "analog" vs. "digital" puts them in a league of their own. Somehow, they would appeal both to the European Conde Nast jetset and the London immigrants that sweep the floors of curry houses. They're the sonic equivalent of the surreal fusion in devopling third- world cities; blank, white, concrete people holders, dirt roads, mopeds, and overcrowding mix with Starbucks, internet- jacked laptops, Diet Squirt, and discotheques.

By reaching into the past and the future to piece together their groove, Lionrock have created some of the most headphone- listenable dance music available. It's not all clenched and forceful and jagged like so much electronic stuff on the market these days. However, it's still 100% intended for you to get your freak on to. I mean, let's face it: any band that can lock a groove to a sample of a camera shutter has got the funk.

-Brent DiCrescenzo