#344 Tubeway Army - Replicas

Heard em on the classic rock station on the TV. Old school via new school!

Here's some deliberately paced, synthy, icy, 80's-but-not-that-80's-but-waaaay-80's art pop post punk rock. The funny thing was, the two times I went "this is a pretty great song!" it was the two times that one of the two well-liked songs were playing. Sometimes the public isn't so wrong. Public says Are 'Friends' Electric and Down in the Park are the songs work hearing, and they're right. I Nearly Married a Human is a nice instrumental that evokes some middle ground between Brian Eno, Bowie's Berlin side 2's and a Flaming Lips instrumental. The sum effect ain't so bad, for all its icy distance and general hasslehoffputtingness. That's a handy new word for annoying German dissonance and distance. It comes up more often than you'd think.

There's something adventurous about this that I admire. At very least those two songs provide some baseline evidence that there's something redeemable about the hyper-synthy side of the 80's 80's 80's sound 3.5/5