
Look, Van She are alright but they’re just a little too much like a second tier Cut Copy – their debut V in 2008 was pretty good electropop, but it just kinda chugged along and never seemed to arrive anywhere. With Ze Vemixes, the ‘She have remixed some tracks off of V, pumping them up a notch or two for the dancefloor. So does it work? It’s certainly a lot thumpier, if that counts for anything – the problem is, I don’t know if that means that it’s any more fun. Tracks like ‘Changes’ might have been a bit aimless on V, but at least they were rollicking. Remixed, ‘Changes’ becomes curiously sparse and generic – something you’d cut some rug to at the club, sure, but not necessarily something you’d choose to listen to over the original mixes at other times. Strangely enough, the album ends on an ‘acoustic’ remix of ‘Virgin Suicide’, which doesn’t quite fit with the thumposity of the rest of the EP but is one of the most successful reworkings on it. It might have also been fun to hear a doofity-doof remix of ‘Kelly’, the best track in the Van She library. Ah, well.