Tony Koklin - Time Chaser
#426
March 1981
Tony Koklin
Time Chaser
Genre: Power Pop
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
So Strange
On Pop
Ok. I give. Who is this guy? Hang on.
Ok. This is an obscure Irish Power Poper/New Waver that there is zero chance we would have heard of in 1981.
This reminds me, in a weird way, of the first Adam and the Ants record. There’s a playfulness to the arrangements and background voices and sounds. The songs aren’t anywhere near as goofy or subversive as Adam’s and they are obviously intended to be more New Wave than post-rock, which Dirk traffics in, in it’s own way. And those are only part of this disconnected collection of songs.
So, if Elvis Costello was told to rewrite Dirk it might sound like this but, instead of being ground breaking or a revelation, such as The Keys or The Jags, it just falls flat, for the most part.
He’s trying, as on “Claude Monet (Reincarnation of an Artist)”, but the subject matter and the song make me want to look up the artist and listen to The Vapors instead.
This album is all over the place and it’s really mostly mod power pop but the songs and production just aren’t there.
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