Blog: PopMatters

Blondes: Blondes

The NYC house music duo look back to the '90s on their debut album. In retrospect, maybe it was inevitable that electronic dance music would eventually circle back and start paying homage to itself. After all, this cycle occurs in every other type of music. What 15 years ago seemed like an inexhaustible frontier of musical possibilities has now become another cultural archive, ripe for nostalgia. Or, as some optimists would have it, rediscovery. You can put Blondes firmly in the latter camp. The New York City duo of...