Yello "Touch Yello"

This has to be one of the best albums not available in the US. Out for three months in Europe, it's being called "Elektro-Digital-Jazz." That'll work. If you can sit still and not smile during track 1 and first single, "The Expert" (you can find the video on YouTube), then I guess you're just not old enough. Old enough to know who Serge Gainsbourg was? Never mind. Deiter Meier has to be 65, Boris Blank in there somewhere, too. There's plenty of the 80's Yello you know and love, even a Bostich update (reflected). Precision Swiss timekeeping. But there is a beautiful chill-jazz vibe here, too, with trumpet, flugelhorn, flutes, and some female vocals featured over the lush backgrounds of Mr. Blank. This made me think of the two great albums by Double...you remember "Captain of Your Heart". And if the track "Till Tomorrow" doesn't make you want to get sexy on your partner, well, you need Viagra. Granted, not everything here is outstanding (I believe I would have tracked it differently), but it's quite a feat to make a quality record like this some twenty years after their eighties heyday.