Kevin Bronson on October 24th, 2011

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In the battle between original sin and disco, there are no losers. At least, when said fight is orchestrated by Alex Lilly and Bram Inscore, the multi-instrumentalist art-schoolers whose wry take on electro has been realized in the new project Touché. Longtime friends Lilly and Inscore are familiar faces on the L.A. scene; Lilly for her band Obi Best and her work with the Bird and the Bee and the Living Sisters, among others, and Inscore for his work beside myriad artists including Beck, Thurston Moore and Charlotte Gainsbourg (although Inscore’s solo project should have gotten more attention). Touché’s first single, “Everything He Wants,” is a whirligig of choked synths and boy/girl vocals, and Keith Megna’s (tongue in cheek? teeth on fruit? concept gone awry?) video finds the dyspeptic duo trying to put the apple back on the tree. Oh well, the song’s a jam.

||| Live: Touché opens for Gold Panda and Jonti tonight at the Echoplex.