Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Cover to Cover [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Plays Violin Works By Handel, Grieg & , Paganini
Music: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert [Live]
My Rules: Mixed By David Penn [Import]
La Diva de la Chanson Orientale [Import]
Amazon.com
Previous experience has already informed us that Trans Am hearts the '80s. This time around, however, the Maryland trio's latest album, TA, sees them ditch the Tron route taken on Futureworld and Red Line and tear along a lost highway-meets-24 Hour Party People trajectory, and faster than you can say "retro-futurist." Resist that temptation to place Trans Am in the electro-chancers bin though, and be rewarded with freakishly wailing Joy Division guitars, twisted on their heads and bullwhipped with pulsating Krautrock synths. Submit to the blistering attack of an electrocuted Fugazi, while alongside an unseen entity cries quietly--sans vocoder these days--and surreptitiously slips its tongue in your ear. TA is as diverse as it is urgent, and as delicious as it is unsettling. Its slithering technoid frequencies are to be savored, preferably in the dark. And alone. --Leslie Gilotti
Album Description
6th album from the Washington DC based trio. Opening cuts 'Cold War' and 'Molecules' reveal influences like New Order, The Cars, Midnight Star, Funk Carioca and George McRae pushed to the breaking point by abusive studio wizardry and aggressive mixes. This is the party album for the end of the world! 2002.