Montreal electro-funk duo Chromeo release their new album, White Women, today.
Described by the band as “Larry David funk” (think funky and macho music but with self-conscious and even funny lyrics), it’s the duo’s most realized album to date, complete with some high-profile guest collaborations from Solange, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Toro Y Moi.
“The crucial thing on this album is that we had a lot of time, so we took a lot of time,” says Patrick “P-Thugg” Gemaye, who plays synth and rocks the talk box. He adds that, for this album, he and singer/guitarist David “Dave 1” Macklovitch also worked in the same city, which is uncommon for them. “We worked together every day, in the same room, 12 hours a day for a year and a half. It was double the effort on everything: recording, songwriting, vocal arrangements, every aspect of it.”
While the album definitely sees the duo pushing themselves to the next level, it’s thankfully not a stylistic departure: there’s funk, there’s disco, there’s Hall and Oates-style soft rock. It’s the perfect soundtrack for the coolest summer ever, so in light of that, we asked P-Thugg to share his top five electro-funk slow jams of all time. And he doesn’t disappoint, going deep into the annals of funk for his picks. Check out his answers in the gallery above.
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