Every Single Penny Will Be Reinvested In the Party

A Paris-based band cranking out vintage, Manchester-rooted dance- rock, this group of DJs and producers wear their influences on their sleeves, one confidently trimmed with cheeky, insider humor. (Lyrics to “Browne and Proud” include: “Learning from the Happy Mondays ...  smoking the Inspiral Carpets ... We invented nothing!” And must we remind you that the singer of the Stone Roses was named Ian Brown?) But the music! The band masters the balance of using old tropes like swirling synths, reverb, and bongos — along with the “Madchester” vocal style, one imbued with cool, detached breathiness — against a contemporary, electronica-inspired crisping of the edges. Big guitars drive standouts “Electronics” and the brilliantly jittery “New Colour” (redolent of classic Oasis), and they sweetly color the indie-pop track “Betty’s Cake.” “Don’t Ask,” “Browne and Proud,” and “No Artifice” are brilliant, mini-epics of the Madchester genre, and “Sunflowers” channels the Velvet Underground, New Order and the Stone Roses in one swoop. The whole darn thing is delicious, and dangerously habit forming.