#157
June
Art of Noise
Whose Afraid of the Art of Noise
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
A Time for Fear (Who’s Afraid)
Beat Box (Diversion 1)
Moments in Love
Remember that video? We were all so entranced. The cutting. The style. The imagery. The little girl, the sparking tools. That was but the surface. I don’t know why or how this album came into existence but it’s so delicious in the ways that KMFDM and Swans are not.
Is it fair to call it Industrial Pop? Friendly Noise?
Whereas so much of that music seems to have all the joy sucked out of it in favor of kill rooms, AoN seem to be making the soundtrack for the mystery that leads to the killer’s apprehension.
Every bit of this record would work in a 2019 television commercial. Why? Because it influenced every bit of electronica that came after.
An extraordinary piece, I wonder what “Moments in Love” would sound lie with Bryan Ferry singing something ala “Avalon” over it.
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