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I assume nobody out there still thinks disco died. Like rock itself, it evolved or mutated--into house and techno, pop funk and hip hop. Which makes Germany's Real McCoy and Britain's M People not revivalists but neoclassicists, devoted to the very '70s craft of fashioning tuneful music with a steady dance beat. What's most impressive about both aggregations is how regularly they succeed--where '70s disco was about great singles, their albums almost never falter. M People's Bizarre Fruit (Epic) is a strong follow-up featuring shouter Heather Small that's guaranteed to satisfy anyone who opened up to 1994's Elegant Slumming. Expertly hooked by beatmaster Olaf Jeglitza for the soft-sung Patricia Peterson and Vanessa Mason, Real McCoy's Another Night (Arista) is more pop, less stridently soulful. Well-rounded fun-seekers will seek out both.
Playboy, June 1995
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