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Drop Your Anxiety

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German death-disco champs The Fair Sex cough up a remix album featuring an array of dancefloor destroyers that stretch all the way back to their daze as pioneers in the guitartronica genre. I am not sure what's changed about the songs now that they've been chopped up and revamped, but what remains still sounds like prime late 80's dance-dustrial, all headspinning beats and clanging metal flourishes. The Fair Sex are smoother than the Skinny Puppy, but share many of same bad obsessions ? depression, war-fear, creepy crawly coldwave beats, distorted man-thing vocals, and acidic guitar riffs. "You Have to Eat Me Now" is the most sinister track on deck, a throbbing, decadent beast, but I bet "Soulspirit" is the one that gets young Germans with severe haircuts laid the most. You hear this kinda stuff everywhere these days, even on TV, but the Fair Sex were one of the bands to develop this kick, kinky sound, and they remain one of the best. Check 'em out if you dig paranoid gloom you can dance to

Drop Your Anxiety" is the title for the latest album
by the German band THE FAIR SEX, but if you look a bit
closer at the tracklist you can see that none of the
songs are really that new. The remix fever has
apparently hit again and on this album you'll find
material that is mainly collected from "Bite Release
Bite", which was released in 1991, but also a couple
of songs from "Spell Of Joy" and "Labyrinth" has been
included. According to the promo sheet the album aims
towards the dance floors of the goth/industrial scene
and this is also something that you can clearly hear
in the remixes. Much of the stiffness and coldness of
the original versions heavy industrial based sound has
been reformed to become more dance floor friendly. The
coldness in the sound has to a great extent
disappeared and a warmer and more dark wave like sound
has been mixed with the small traces of the heavier
industrial sound that is still present in the songs,
like for example on "Fat Bellies' Hunger (Greed
Version)" and "Soul spirit (Spiritualized)". At some
moments the very dance friendly remixes even get
slight traces of future pop, which cuts of some more
of the rough edges of the industrial sound. Another
interesting detail is that the quite heavy guitar work
has in many songs taken a step back and the sound gets
even more electronic than I'm used to when it comes to
THE FAIR SEX. It's especially the first song "Alaska
(Hook line Assembler)", "Shelter (TFS. TDC Act)" and
the above mentioned "Soul spirit (Spiritualized)" that
I've become very fond of and they are maybe the
brightest highlights on this album. Finally you also
get to hear a live version of the excellent song
"Shelter", on which the heavier industrial sound again
gets some more space. With its very catchy melodies
and above all the very successful remixes, I'm
convinced that the aim for THE FAIR SEX to reach out
on the dance floors with "Drop Your Anxiety" will be
reached. With latex and leather, a lot of strobe
lights and the album "Drop Your Anxiety" you have the
main ingredients for a good party. Umbrella drinks are
banned, sorry