Vitalic

Pascal Arbez keeps up his walloping pace on the follow-up to 2005's electro-house touchstone, OK Cowboy. His mechanized disco rhythms are as overdriven as ever, and his synths are as subtle as paint stripper, peeling back the high end in an ecstasy of treble. But while these rave-tested anthems are built to thrill, there's enough pop structure and sonic nuance to keep the mood versatile.