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Modern Buzzcocks |
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The Buzzcocks, one of England's long standing, long in the tooth, longing for the lost years types… with an album that would've felt right at home in 1983, when Post-Modern Rock and New Wave took the world by storm and groups like A Flock of Seagulls, ABC, and The Alarm were all the rage here, there and just about anywhere else you could grab hold of an airwave and encapsulate it for a few moments. "Modern" in a quirky sort of way is as it says, considering the cyclic nature of the music biz and the worn out patch to prominence gone by way of Alternative, Grunge and folksy-Pop and boorish AOR. "Modern" is not typical of up and coming studio-tech geniuses who aren't satisfied until those abysmal noises spewing forth from the boards are anything remotely close an actual tune, though they're not without their offbeat trickery every once and again "Soul on a Rock," Rendezvous," "Thunder of Hearts," all melodious, flighty Pop tunes loaded up with sugary Kinks-like harmonies aplenty with a passing glance to yesterday's New Wave movers and beat happy willies of the electronic sort throwin' back to the likes of Devo and to a lesser extent, Talking Heads. Though tilted at times with a guitar-Rock flavor-"Don't Let the Car Crash," "Runaround," "Doesn't Mean Anything…," Buzzcocks opt mainly to recreate the one time coming of age crimp, curl and cut phenomenon that momentarily impressed many, left others with a few reasons for wrinkling their eye and get ready to duck, I think it's Howard Jones and Haircut 100 fast approaching in the rearview… Released by Go Kart Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
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