Despite its colourful '80s hip-hop cover art, Disco Defenders - a double album with the second disc separately titled Now and Then - shows that although the lineup may have changed, their trademark sound certainly hasn't. Four years after announcing a hiatus, they return with a new vocalist in tow, Lina Hedlund, for their first album since the departure of founding members Annika Kjaergaard and Magnus Carlsson. Uber-camp trio Alcazar are one of the few schlager acts to have any impact outside of their native Sweden, having scored a series of European hits in the early noughties with their infectious brand of flamboyant pop.
