Teleman – Good Time/Hard Time review

Everything seems so black or white these days, doesn’t it? You either love black and totally hate white, or vice versa. In this polarised world most people live with, our constantly manipulated emotions mean that there’s little time and space for the opposite of what we like, meaning there’s no room for any erm..grey area.

Since their last release Family of Aliens in 2018 Teleman have become a trio following the departure of Johnny Sanders to concentrate on visual projects, but reassuringly his brother Thomas remains and although Good Time/Hard Time is an excercise lyrically in appreciating the results of persistence, it resides in much the same musical territory as it’s predecessor.

In practice this means that Sanders and co. are still orbiting around the garden centre dance pop of Metronomy and Hot Chip, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some grooves to be knocked the hell out (if that’s ok with you). At it’s peak on the misty-eyed Cherish, Wonderful Times slick anti-capitalism groove and The Juice’s zippy 80’s funk, Good Times/Hard Times is as much fun as you can have in the middle of the road without a helmet or a paint brush.

You can read a full review here.