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Circlesquare’s new album Songs About Dancing And Drugs is a veritable boxof surprises, and the stunners just keep coming. “Hey You Guys,” the second single, features remixes from DFA artist The Juan MacLean andEd Banger’s Mickey Moonlight aka Midnight Mike. Taken as a whole, thefour-track EP spans a range of moods from the morose to the manic, makingan unexpected keystone in the arc from rock to dance music."Hey You Guys,” the opening track off Songs About Dancing And Drugs, is the perfect introduction to Circlesquare’s contemplative and conflicted world -blissed-out shoegaze, Seefeel’s electronic dub, Fugazi at their most precise. The Juan MacLean are turning in a slow-burning powerhouse, amped upon acid oscillations and overdriven drums. If Songs About Dancing AndDrugs is a look back at the wild life, the remix is a snapshot of dance-floormayhem in full flame. The Juan MacLean is no stranger to the groove—his cuts like “Give Me Every Little Thing” and “Happy House” plus his remixes for the likes of Daft Punk, Matthew Dear, and Roy Davis, Jr.,have become club staples for the way that they bridge the worlds of disco, house, and rock. This time out, he does the seemingly impossible by crafting a peak-hour stormer that crawls along at 110 BPM, possibly less! Circlesquare’s music has never been stranger to the pleasures of the slow and low, of course, but MacLean sheds the languor in favor of a methodical, machine-fueled grind that’s lubed with sweat. Both versions of the remix, vocal and instrumental, are simply mammoth. Rising star Mickey Moonlight switches up the mood considerably, kitting out “Hey You Guys” in dreamy synthesizers, bells, and kalimba. Lush and psychedelic —not what you might expect from an artist affiliated with the Ed Banger camp, but Mickey’s catalogue so far (including remixes for Franz Ferdinand, Natacha Atlas, and D.C. Recordings’ Higamos Hogamos) suggests that he’s not your average blog-rocker. No wonder The Guardian’s Tony Naylor dubbed his d
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