#19
January 1985
C Cat Trance
Khamu
3.25 out of 5
Does this qualify as “trance” music? Is it early “House”? It’s not hypnotic enough to put me in a state and the vocals are so leather club growly that I find it off putting. “Barefoot Doctor” plays like Soft Cell if Soft Cell was a leathercore band. And then the moodscapes of “The New Hassan” bring to mind Laurie Anderson’s “Excellent Birds” but there’s no wit, no personality, it’s just a music bed.
Some of it is evocative(“(Screaming) to Be With You”), much of it is pointless “Rattling Ghosts” or indulgent (“The Old Man”) or vaguely theatrical (read:Off-Off-Broadway) (“Simply Helen”).
Anyway.
YMMV
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