L' Amour Toujours

Gigi d'Agostino makes music that sounds at least five years behind his techno peers. That makes his second album both a bit charming and archaic. The Euro-disco tracks have a high-energy sweep to them that carries over well to the dancefloor, yet the near-basic approach to them already seems destined for sporting-event wasteland. Chants, vocoders, and electro-riffs populate this effort, and D'Agostino, smiling the whole time, cheerily glides right along with the clichés.