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Confidence Man: 3AM (La La La) review – joyous escape into the gen X club era

The electro-pop band’s third album is a playful, energetic trip down memory lane, transporting us to Happy Mondays-era Hacienda, vintage New Order and the KLF

Front and centre of Confidence Man are hype-squad vocalists Grace Stephenson (AKA Janet Planet) and Aidan Moore (answers to Sugar Bones), beloved for their camp choreo and outrageous outfits. When restrictions were eased, the Brisbane band ditched their share house in Melbourne (with its back yard club, named The Fuck Bunker) and took off to Dalston, east London, to be closer to the source. Whereas the KLF went for broke by burning a million quid of their profits and deleting their entire back catalogue (before relenting nearly 30 years later and re-releasing it), Confidence Man are in pursuit of ever-bigger budgets with which to world-build.

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