He ain’t half got a mouth on him, has our Calvin. He slammed Roisin Murphy as “mental” for not using the tracks he worked on with Cathy Dennis. And Bloc Party also received the sharp edge of his tongue, for being a “rubbish” band who “make very tedious music.”

Well, when you’re six foot five tall, I suppose looking down on others comes naturally. Yet for all his lip, Harris hasn’t got a voice to match. In fact, he hasn’t got much of a voice at all.

The duff vocals on I Created Disco don’t stop it from being an impressive debut album, however – just as it didn’t prevent The Stone Roses or Primal Scream in the past. The squelchy sound effects help. As do the other sonic tricks introduced at the 23-year-old’s calvinharrisbeats studio, i.e the bedroom he records in at his parent’s house.

It’s an understatement of the century to say he’s inspired by LCD Soundsystem. However, there are other influences at play. Notably Visage with a sample from ‘Fade to Grey’ appearing on early highlight, ‘Colours’.

Born in 1984, Harris includes his breakthrough single ‘Acceptable in the 80s’. Let alone that decade, our Calvin is more than acceptable now. Something which his 41,286 (and rising) MySpace friends would attest to.

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