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Never let it be said Ka-Spel doesn't do normal songs
sometimes. OK, normal is way, way, way the wrong word.
What I mean is that he sometimes approaches
traditional songwriting. Er, by which I mean he
transmogriphies traditional song structures the
Ka-Spel way. Which is no shock for those who are
familiar with other Ka-Spel work and work he did with
the Legendary Pink Dots. But if you've heard some of
his stuff, you might be surprised he even gets this
close to accessible, which is to say, if you have any
friends that are at least willing to hear anything
once, you might get them to hear this. Ka-Spel is
admittedly more for fans of off the wall stuff, and
so, naturally, I come along and say, "Hey, this is
pretty good stuff." Really, you can imagine the sort
of electronic side of 80s new wave music (this is, in
fact, a rerelease of an 84 album) shot through with
Edward Ka-Spel's morphine pop stylings and drugged
vocal tone. The weird thing is that he doesn't sound
bored or uninterested, just waaaaay out there. Just
like the rest of the musical aspects on display here.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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