Bonde Do Role

They dance. They laugh. They brawl like sister and brothers. They make songs about partying, f∗∗king, going to the beach, partying and f∗∗king on the beach, secret agents and queuing at the post office, all wrapped up in an unintelligible but perfectly logical barrage of Portugese gay slang which even most Brazilians don’t understand. They are the party-funk-fuelled soundtrack to a John Waters-directed account of Kenneth Williams dancing on the tables down the Korova Milk Bar. They are Pedro, Marina and Gorky and they have come for your daughters, sons, mums, dads, girlfriends and boyfriends. They are not picky.

Since forming two years ago and signing to Diplo’s Mad Decent label in 2006 – with the ‘Diplo Presents Bonde Do Role EP’ prompting some big waves and little earthquakes among Very Cool People – they’ve teamed up with Domino for ‘…With Lasers’, a debut album which bangs through 13 songs in half an hour. It is not exactly an album which beats around the bush. Nor do the band’s members pull their punches. “Bonde Do Role is the ultimate, stupid party,” Marina announces, defiantly. “It’s not music which is there to make you want to break something.”