It must be the male menopause or something - I mean buying dance albums at my age. But a certain restlessness has been developing in the last few months so this may not be the last purchase that seems a bit off-the-wall in the context of the rest of the site’s contents. And anyway, this record at least is not that much of a departure.

If you know one thing about this LP then the chances are it is that it is loaded with celebrity vocalists, mainly from the rock world. You’ll probably also have noticed that this LP has been popular in the rock press and it’s easy to see why. Whilst it is undeniably a dance album it is something of a dance-indie crossover - like much dance music the songs are based on repetition, but they also retain a certain rock sensibility, even the ones without the obvious rock elements. Repetition obviously has many rock precedents - Band of Susans spring to mind for me (and probably no-one else!).

So this record ranges from the metallic looped riffing of "Aisha" through to the more soulful "Aladdin’s Story" to the upbeat danceability of "Neptune City". Oddly there’s almost the feeling that each song has a twin somewhere else on the album - "Aisha" and the ominous "Death Threat" represent the harder edge to the album whilst by contrast "Neptune City" and "Flying" sound more like conventional dance tunes (and not a million miles from Indian Ropeman, whom I saw at T in the Park.)

If my problem with the latter outfit was the unrelenting happiness of their music, the same cannot be said of DIV. The songs written for the guest vocalists are very appropriate musically, so much so that Jim Reid’s contribution "Broken Little Sister" sounds like a Mary Chain title (he wrote the lyrics so that could explain it) never mind like a dance-Mary Chain backing. Similarly Bobby G sounds right at home on "Soul Auctioneer" and the repetitive riffing of "Aisha" is tailor made for the Igster.