Los Microwaves - Life After Breakfast
#476
October 16 1981
Los Microwaves
Life After Breakfast
Genre: Electronic
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Home Alone
Forever
I love that this record opens with a recording of the time announcement that we all used to call in to to find out what time it is and then breaks into a pounding and harrowing Meg Brazil refusing to start her day which, I assume, starts “after breakfast”.
Listening to her refuse to answer the wake up call, and call in to work pretending to be sick reminds me of when I would fake call in sick and then, of course, eventually be fired from that job.
And, by job, I mean unpaid internship.
The 80s were the high point of “ironic detachment”. Spurred on by stand up comics like Steve Martin and Bill Murray and David Letterman, irony is the defining characteristic of the era.
Take that detached cynicism and apply it to beat poets and use synths instead of traditional instruments and you get Los Microwaves. “Home Alone” is a prime example of this. Its that she is home alone…in the 80s. It’s not the 60s and its definitely not the 70s. It’s the 80s. An era that was defined by recognizing that it was a different era with different rules but mostly defined by the fact that it was “The 80s”. There’s never been a more self-obsessed decade than that one.
This one and done feels like it was just a fun project that no involved took TOO seriously and they knew this wasn’t going to be their vocation.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/life-after-breakfast/511091155
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