All In
The jet on the cover of Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron's first domestic release is no accident: they're internationalists all the way, importing whatever kinds of pop fit into their ideal of the perfect plastic dance.All Inis packed full of slogans, prefabrications, and found fragments of kitsch (like the two Asian girls who pop up every few tracks to cheer, "We love dancing--yaaay!") and is as manipulative, ingeniously simple, and adorable as the Teletubbies, but with a lot more double-entendre. Will some double-time breakbeats make a song more likable? How about Hawaiian slide guitar? Easy-listening strings? Eurodisco bass? Cartoon whistling and vibes?  Dub effects? Cut-up hard-rock riffs? In they go. It's a soufflé of a record, utterly lightweight and precariously yummy.--Douglas Wolk