The second album from New York arthouse duo Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, Odyssey is a complex blend of electro-pop, rocking beats and dark, brooding 1970s attitude. The album's material deftly combines influences as varied as Pink Floyd, The Cure and Steve Miller, together with Philip Glass, Daft Punk and a hint of Depeche Mode thrown in for good measure.

Yet while the music may be familiar there is a distinct uniqueness about Warren Fischer's deadpan but tuneful vocals, which envelop the more sharply-edged songs with a smooth coating that is not in the least bit sugary.

Odyssey was produced in part by Mirwais - the man responsible for Madonna's Music album - and his "blippy bleepy" sound is much in evidence on tunes such as the Euro disco-esque track Cloud and the rockier Never Win, which sounds remarkably like a reworking of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall. A Kick In The Teeth is as beautifully crafted an electronic pop song as you're likely to hear all year, reminiscent of something Air might have come up with.

Fischerspooner also collaborated with a number of their heroes for the album, most notably US intellectual Susan Sontag, who provided the lyrics for the Depeche Mode-sounding We Need A War. As an aside, while they were away recording Odyssey their compatriots, Scissor Sisters, released their own debut album, which sounds not unlike a more light-hearted version of Odyssey, with it's combination of dark and light tone and catchy electro sound. The New York duo must be kicking themselves.