- Liechtenstein's Late Invitation are a three-piece that seem to delight in dressing up for their live shows. But there's nothing distracting you from the music on their debut 12-inch for Mathematics: The trio's tunes are unencumbered, easy listening house music for those more fit for the rocking chair than rocking the house.
"The Invite" may sound like the work of amateurs, but it's thin in all the best ways, a low-rent take on boogie disco that is funky enough to make up for the fact that its low-end may not be the heaviest you've ever heard. (The ecstatically simple piano that drops in halfway through helps, charm-wise.) It's perhaps "The Late Invitation Theme," though, that works best—a track that invites you to take your lady back to the pad and put on the fireplace DVD on the television. Boomkat mentioned Floating Points in their write-up of the release, and it's a fair comparison, even if this is simpler stuff than Samual Shepherd's full-tilt compositions. The same goes for "Thus," which is given two more minutes, and accordingly fills its time vamping on the main theme with aplomb, sounding like the complete opposite of what their elaborate stage costumes might suggest.
Tracklist A1 The Invite
A2 The Late Invitation Theme
B1 Thus