Kevin Bronson on September 29th, 2017

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L.A. duo De Lux — Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco — issue three warnings about their forthcoming third album “More Disco Songs About Love”: 1) The album title is a joke. 2) There’s a Super Smash Brothers Melee sample in one of the songs, but they’re not saying which one. 3) Sean’s mom talks about making crepes in French on the song “Music Snob.”

Guerin also allows as how he was listening to Stevie Wonder while working on the album, which might account for a certain feel the duo’s dance-punk/funk takes on the album’s lead track, “875 Dollars.” The song, which is about the price of a dirt-cheap-nowadays rental house (and losing it), is a footloose six-minute jam laced with De Lux’s typical irreverence and penchant for mucking up the proceedings just enough (the burst of fried beats at the 2:05 mark).

The album, out Jan. 19 via Innovative Leisure, features appearances by Sal P. of Liquid Liquid (lead vocals on “Smarter Darker Harder”) and Mark Stewart of the Pop Grop (on “Stratosphere Girl”). Says the band: “We like to say (2014’s) ‘Voyage’ was our baby, (2015’s) ‘Generation’ was our baby all grown up and ‘More Disco Songs About Love’ thinks growing up sucks and just wants to party smart.”

||| Stream: “875 Dollars”