DOWNLOAD: Xeno and Oaklander - Not Afraid
Look at you, sitting there in your generic outfit at your boring desk job, poring over the accounts or manipulating your database or whatever the hell it is you do with numbers now. By which I mean to say: C'mon, man—don't you remember when you were 13 and you wanted to get married in a lighthouse in matching black wedding dresses? Don't you remember what it felt like to be an outsider? I've always thought of Xeno & Oaklander as two who've never grown out of that, really, but in a totally good (if gloomy) way. If Tyler, the Creator says he never wants to stop being a kid, then Xeno & Oaklander never want to remove their toes from the precipice of adolescence, preferring to keep each other company as the big, yawning crevasse of bad sex and drug embarrassment beckons them to swan dive on in. "Not Afraid", out as the B-side of their latest single "Staircase" through Wierd last month, is the sort of gothic synthpop that'll keep them forever teetering tensely at canyon's edge.
Xeno and Oaklander - Not Afraid
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DOWNLOAD: Absolute Body Control - Figures
If, like me, you were disappointed to learn that Depeche Mode turned into an embarrassing rock band after their debut album, you'll find odd, warm relief in Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics, a 'new' compilation profiling lost synthpop classics made in Europe in the first half of the Eighties. Belgian duo Absolute Body Control get the comp - put together by London label Angular and New York's Wierd Records - off to a soaring, bleeping, cracking start; get more of that when the full release arrives in February.
Sounds Like: early Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Giorgio Moroder
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