Automatic by Don Broco

It feels like we've been waiting a life time for this Don Broco album. Automatic is the band's second LP and comes a very long three years after their massively successful debut, Priorities. Now an extremely popular band, loved by champions of all music genres, Don Broco look set to dominate hearts and minds everywhere. Automatic is an effort based on living up to the hype and making music that pushes the traditional conception of the alternative scene and this is exactly what Don Broco have achieved.

Automatic is all funk and groove infused with the trademark Broco pop rock we all love and it's pretty much a massive party. It's an album that has allowed Don Broco to push and develop their sound into something far more mature and something that is unique to them. It certainly sounds more vast and the Tropicana 80's vibe they've weaved through the entire album is quite impressive. It is different but it works because this isn't a false pretense. Rob and co. genuinely love what they've created here and that transpires and makes you love it just as much. The spark these four men possess burns it's brightest during the likes of Automatic and Superlove, which feature some of the grooviest, lip-biting funkiness you'll hear all album and the same can be said of Wrong Place Wrong Time too. Okay, there is the odd song like Nerve or Further (which is reminiscent of The Corrs...) where the fire diminishes, however, the more familiar Priorities style-Broco re-ignites the spark with songs like Let You Get Away, Money Power Fame and You Wanna Know.

Don Broco always bring the sort of fun that will wrap itself around you and manifest in your skin until you're doing the running man with them at their live shows. That's what this album was built for, the live circuit and that is where it's going to shine, so get on your white two-piece suit, or your neon mini skirt, grab a pina colada and get dancing because Automatic is your new summer soundtrack.

8/10
Listen to: Superlove, Wrong Place Wrong Time