Mike76

"If you manage to find this record, now only available for order abroad (I waited months and months to find a copy), frame it." Well, I found it on the mid-price shelf. It's a good work, but in this genre, I prefer "Psychocandy."

"What will remain of these 2000s?" Damn... I was writing a review that started with the same question, and now I have to change it! Luckily, I read your review; otherwise, they would have accused me of plagiarism. The answer to the question? I don't know, the 2000s are still an unexplored mine for me, I still have very few albums from this decade at home. Anyway, Liars, Oneida, El Guapo, Hoahio, and Fuck Buttons have done some nice things and, as far as I'm concerned, better than any grunge band.

A record with some somewhat redundant arrangements but still enjoyable and original, even though "Loomer," "To Here Knows When," and "Blown a Wish" (which are very beautiful) seem like Cocteau Twins tracks reworked in the studio. Rating 4-

"The Creation was on the verge of failure for the recording of this work," and I believe it: they had to pay 17 sound engineers to record 11 tracks!

Third-hand new wave/dark. More of Corgan's voice.

I bought it just the day before yesterday and I've listened to it only a little, but that's enough for me to declare it the best album by Foxx's Ultravox(!): an album from 1978 that already sounds like the '80s. The Duran Duran of their debut and Gary Numan's Tubeway Army have explicitly drawn inspiration from this album, and you can really hear it. In various rock encyclopedias, SOR is inexplicably underrated, and I truly don't understand why. I agree with almost every word said above by my friend Nerocane; in the two albums from '77 there was too much going on (for some it was eclecticism, but for me it was more indecision), while here they finally manage to create a mature, coherent, and original sound. Essential (even according to Foxx himself) was the change of guitarist: the innovative and "dry" Robin Simon instead of the punk Steve Shears.

I have it too. It's not bad, although they might have borrowed a bit from Laibach. The review is well written, but you forgot to mention the cover of "Stripped" by Depeche Mode included as a ghost track.

If they are so different from the Battles, they have a better chance of catching my interest...

Well, I listened to them just a little, they seemed a bit too caricatured for my taste, but maybe I just happened to hear the "wrong" tracks. The review is well written, but I don't really agree with the introduction; the Cabs actually predate the Throbbing, while the early DVA have little to do with electronics and only their first tapes can be somewhat classified within industrial, their debut album "Thirst" was already something else.

I listened to the Blow Up podcast, not bad.