Labels: Captured Tracks
Review by: Andy Malcolm
I am not sure what is wrong with me but lately I have this real thing for this kind of early 80s electro pop nonsense. I got a bit besotted with Washed Out last week, especially as a couple of their songs sound like Antarctica. Clearly I am a hipster in all but name. Then this Cosmetics 7″ turned up in a distro order and I found myself partial to a bit of this too. It’s all bleak, wintery and very European sounding. The a-side is the kind of music that could have played out over a slow motion video of the Soviets repelling the German army from the gates of Moscow in 1941, all fields of snow and dead bodies and burning tanks. Except that’s probably not what the band was going for. I am sure they are thinking a bit more sexy, what with the song titles “Soft Skin” and “Black Leather Gloves”. The latter of these certainly gets a bit fetishistic, if you’re of a certain age I’d suggest not being caught listening to this by your parents or you might have some explaining to do. It fizzes beats, breathy vocals and occasional ascending bleeps or deeper bloops. I certainly have a way with words, don’t you know. Anyways, It’s all a bit un-British and wot not, this kind of thing is supposed to be kept behind closed doors. Anyways. That’s as much as you’re going to get out of me.