From the illuminated billboard on the album's cover to the sneering putdowns of "market demographics" on "Nothing Is Wrong," FC Kahuna takes every opportunity it gets to blame an anesthetized nightclub audience for the sorry state of affairs. The hope Ormondroyd and Nowell hold out for their listeners lies in the originality of their own sound. Aphex Twin-inspired digital glitches and delicately treated guitars share space with propulsive house grooves ("Glitterball") and bizarre electro interludes ("Bleep Freak"). And gentle space ballads like "Hayling"--featuring former Gus Gus chanteuse Hafdis Huld on vocals--illustrate the group's maturity and range. So even if FC Kahuna are neither flavor-of-the-month nor starry-eyed innocents anymore, Machine Says Yes still grooves with equal parts energy and experience.