Chromeo is one of the funnest groups to come along since 2002, and I finally got to check them out when they played London last Saturday. I had no idea they had exploded so hugely, and was especially floored by the “chromeeeeoooo, oohhhh-ohhhhh” chanted between songs like a cult of Oz-Chromeo worshiping drones.

It was a seriously fun show full of kitschy adornments. The band’s true-to-the 80s vocodered stylings were an amusement for all, but one that could wear off after a while. (That while has not come for me just yet).

I also dig the fact that they’re “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since the beginning of time,” (hilarious, if untrue) and that David (the Jewish half) is earning a PhD in French Lit from Columbia University in New York while teaching French to undergrads. His dissertation topic: “Theorizing the Pleasure of Reading in Eighteenth Century France.” Nice.