I CREATED DISCO - CALVIN HARRIS
So far, this 23-year-old Scot has cut a public figure antithetical to the usual scrappy populists who hit the big time via MySpace. He’s disaffected and snide, the kind of guy who would take credit for starting a genre that expired before his birth or make a track eschewing the entire record biz (”This Is Industry”) before the release of his debut album. “I Created Disco” feels renegade, and that’s what makes it more than irresistibly fun synth-pop. Harris favors analog synths over software, giving “Disco” a unique sonic heft. But where next-big-things like overly arty Fischerspooner and sampling trickster Mylo failed, Harris succeeds. This is an accessible album that post-grunge millennials — kids still in the single digits when Kurt Cobain died — can claim as their own. I Created Disco
