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Rating: Loophole, inconsistencies, a pleasant sense of bewilderment.
Like an enigmatic canvas by Klee
past, present, future, soluble traces among iconographies of Inner Space.
Soundscapes in ruins and ghosts of an irreversible future, crystal worlds.
The secret lies in those icy dawns, in that desire to abandon the flesh after being deeply seduced by it. I want to be a machine.
On the sofa, a warm little robot in heat, it could be just a toy or a new and cybernetic Latin lover. My sex.
"My sex is often alone
sometimes it emits short circuits
sometimes it is a golden glow."
Post-punk before the advent of punk, confused and rarefied, among drum machines and unleashed violins, a retro preview of what Magazine and Wire, the Human League of Being Boiled would do within two years.
The first album is born under the good star of Eno in search of those no wave sensations (Foxx had loved Another Green World), under the protection of Steve Lillywhite. The sound for modern lovers and for a vocalist so slim he no longer wants to stay curled up in bed, could only be influenced by Bowie.
But the surprise is that before that Berlin trilogy in the album, there are those songs that one would have wanted to hear in the White Duke’s subsequent albums. Photos from that time show five young rockers uncertain whether to dress glam or punk, with unnatural and fixed smirks on their faces, as if even that curious facial mimicry betrayed that transition between genres, yet one can overlook the PVC jackets.
The sex of Dennis Leigh as a baroque icon in a dump of old Fritz Lang films, like Ballard, prophet of our nightmares, that disturbing connection with Sex & Cadillac.
Where what becomes hyperreal ultimately absorbs both reality and fiction...
Sex as a fragile acrobat, the skin showing its growing vulnerability, with that demon underneath showing that grin projected into the future.
One can be Post Punk, before Punk.
One can still be glam, after the sunset of the New York Dolls and the eclipse of the Metro.
One can be ahead of the times and simultaneously out of time.
Ultravox!
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