SAFTEY SCISSORS new album "Tainted Lunch" shows a healthy and interesting diet of influences and thoughts. With widescreen electronic pop music wearing its heart on its sleeve, the Berlin/San Franbased artist's second album proves that clever songwriting, frisky arrangements, and slanted dancefloor manoeuvres will always trump formulaic thumping & shrill, chilly attitudes. From amnesia to French cooking to transatlantic affairs of the heart, MATTHEW PATTERSON CURRY's lyrics sidestep clich in favour of an awkward vulnerability, deliberateoff rhymes and quotidian details. When his wavery, emotionally direct voice and wry lyrics are combined with brisk, brittle electronic production and twangy guitars, the result adds up to classic synthetic pop music of the kind that makes everybody reach for their NEW ORDER and MAGNETIC FIELDS albums. But there's a substantial freakiness/funkiness to Curry's production too which takes 80's synth funk stabs, saxophone , a rubber bass guitar, electric piano, kazoo and banjo in stride, and sets beats and basslines spinning in odd directions, as frazzled quakes and dubbed out bleeps fizz through the mix.