Klymaax’s third album serves up a single acoustic guitar/piano tear-jerker and the very pretty nostalgic Ask Me No Questions but the rest of Meeting… is all about the dance floor. Updating the sound of their previous two albums on Solar by cutting down the live instrumentation and eliminating the orchestration, Meeting… is largely characterised by Jam and Lewis-produced drum-machine Minneapolis-funk, the guitars tinny and tiny, the fabricated percussion, synth stabs and pads looming large in the mix. 

I can’t think of a song intro that better encapsulates the aesthetic of a decade than album opener The Men All Pause. First a torrent of syn-drum rolls and synth bass set the scene and then within seconds a voice is name-dropping ‘Kenneth Cole shoes’ and ‘my Gianni Versace blue leather suit’. Meeting… sits in a funky, party-friendly sweet spot between peak-80s Pointer Sisters and Control-era Janet.