Some songs pick a side and stay there. “Bats in Paris” sides with the darkness and never blinks.
Opening with Dina Summer’s spoken verses laid flat over a drum machine that doesn’t so much build as insist, the track channels the electroclash of The Hacker with hints of Italo and EBM. Local Suicide and Kalipo have spent a few years refining this particular contradiction, and here it locks into place with unusual precision.