Thursday, September 12, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - SPK - Machine Age Voodoo

SPK - Machine Age Voodoo


#472/1105
November 29 1985
SPK
Machine Age Voodoo
2.5 out of 5


Remember Xex? It seems to me that SPK heard, liked and decided to emulate that record but without any of Waw Pierogi’s or Thumbalina Guglielmo’s sense of humor. 
It’s a little droning and repetitive and certainly not all that inventive (but, maybe at the time it was, I dunno). And it can actually sound a bit like Dead or Alive (but is that really who one wants to emulate? You do you, SPK)
At times I find myself really digging the drone and at others I think it’s a 5 years too late New Wave record that doesn’t realize the time has passed.

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