Electro pioneer John Foxx continues to mine a rich creativity of composition, with just the two new releases this month! We’ll take a look at his instrumental record ‘B-Movie (Ballardian Video Neuronica)’ next week, but this one – also instrumental – is a collaboration with Steve D’Agostino that shows how Foxx gets his inspiration from others. The press release nails an accurate description of this album as a ‘sinister sonic architecture of drum-machine-music and analogue synthesizers’, for some of this music is indeed quite unsettling. ‘Who Can Resist A Twisted Kiss’ sounds like something that should be relaxing, but isn’t – while the shimmering ‘A Blurred Line Of Fiction’ is pleasingly out of focus but also keeps its suspense. The closing ‘Empty Clothing Blows Across A Beach’, the most substantial piece of music here, is detached and eerie, searching for focus but not quite finding it – unlike ‘Rhapsody In Flames’, which has a determined pop riff that shines through. It will be intriguing to see how Foxx and D’Agostino marry this music to imagery, which will happen in a live event at the British Film Institute next month. On this evidence it will be a little disturbing – but compelling, too.
5 out of 5
Reviewed By Ben Hogwood
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