by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Frank (Just Frank) - Coeur Hanté (MP3) Minimal wavers Frank (Just Frank) play the Wierd party at Home Sweet Home tonight (6/1), the band's first live performance in two years. Frank (Just Frank) released their debut album, The Brutal Wave , last year on Wierd. Like most artists on the label, it's indebted to the '80s. You can hear vintage [...]
I hardly speak a lick of French (despite three years of it in High School) but in the past few years I've really taken to French language pop, be it the '60s classics or the new wave. Even hip hop. You don't need to understand the lyrics -- it just sounds good. (I still don't know what Michael Stipe, Mark E Smith or Elizabeth Frazer were singing in the '80s.( Anyway, I listened to a lot of Francophone artists this year. Here's nine I especially liked. [...]
My favourite cold wave tunes are the soundtrack for a boss fight against abstract concepts that manifest themselves in daily grief: alienation, commoditisation, urban loneliness. It is Josef K on the hero's journey, crisis and change as processed by a soviet bureaucracy (in triplicate). Hence the alluring clash of beauty and decay, exaltation and depression [...]
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