Word: electroclash
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...electro” element in electroclash doesn’t signal a return to the jittery rhythms of “Planet Rock” and its progeny, but rather to Kraftwerk and the cool futurisms of synth-pop. Herein lies the problem; the profound inhumanity of machine music was central to the latter group’s ethos and appeal. With the radio often sounding more deranged and metallic than those early experiments, this late revival really comprises some of the oldest sounding new music around...
Witness yet another “Next Big Thing” in full effect. What makes electroclash so critic-friendly is that the movement has more than enough self-sufficiency and panache to look and sound great on paper. It’s a generation of producers wielding analog synths and rubbing shoulders with kinky vocalists, reconfiguring rock music’s lost sex appeal under the icy auspices of Eighties new wave—only remade for the 21st century...
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