Word: disco
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...everything is not an actual, inhabitable place but a floating media mirage, an invisible digital bubble of information located somewhere in the fifth dimension. Having passed through the canyonlands of Utah while listening to Caribbean pop and having crossed the Black Hills of South Dakota immersed in a disco channel called the Strobe, I feel after a year of nonstop driving (50,000 miles in all) that I haven't, in fact, gone anywhere except deeper and deeper inside my radio...
...high point in the group's unfussy minimalism. I Turn My Camera On is so basic that someone receives a credit for finger snapping--and deserves it. Yet the bass groove at its core is buoyant and hooky enough on its own to create what could be the first disco chain-gang song. They Never Got You starts with another bass riff before adding drums, a Moog synthesizer and viola so judiciously that you hardly realize they're there. The power pop of Sister Jack breaks for a hysterically grimy guitar solo that stops cold at the last verse, like...
...defected from the U.S. after Viet Nam. Poor Raymond is a neurotic mess; glamorous Kolya has the nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits or mentions the family he must have left stranded. Raymond hates U.S. politics, but the disco beat pulsing from Kolya's tape deck calls him home. Good idea, Ray, since the cagey beast from the KGB (Jerzy Skolimowski) hates blacks...
...aspire to the club. On the best songs—which is to say, all but one or two on this consistently great album—those nods to the ’80s brilliantly showcase Barnes’ superlative songwriting. The lighter-than-air loops and disco-ball riffs seem a natural extension of Barnes’ always-circular tendencies as a hooksmith. Strands of melody that might have spiraled aimlessly in 1999 are effortlessly pulled into place...
...Josephine, engage in sexually and racially comic antics. For example, the ladies have a lot of fun commenting on the sexuality of male hairdresser James (Bryce Wilson), who gives them plenty to question with his comments on details of his personal hygiene and is caught seriously grooving to a disco tune...