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Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink

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the first spt album was great, but this one totally blew me away. I was first drawn to the beautiful cover art. I especially like the use of the leather clad gentlemen to spell out the band name on the back. That alone should sell the album. But to learn that spt had covered many of the songs from my youth really made me pick the album up. The music sounds fantastic. The beats are totally original and are fun to blast. I guess this is glitch or whatever, but it is much more danceable than "do you party?" Highlights here are the third track, lyrics all sampled from various places and beats moving all over the speakers. I can not deny that knowing many of the lyrics really added a lot to the songs (songs that i didn't think I would be dancing to alone). If you dont' know the lyrics, just sit back and enjoy, especially when they get raunchy. the beats just make the lyrics all the more nasty. I really want to hear this in the bathhouse at top volume. "I've got the clap....can't get no pussy, and no relief..." If you are in the mood to dance, this is a great party album. If you are in the mood to study early 80s punk, the liner notes are sufficient and make the album super for the heads.

From where I sit, electronic dance music has seriously fallen off in the last couple of years. But it seems like the Soft Pink Truth is the only act around that is still experimenting with a super fun, balls to the wall, approach to cutting edge electronic methods. I was a bit nervous about this album when I heard that it was to be "a comparative analysis of early English punks songs as they relate to American hardcore tracks of similar era". I mean to say that I knew the guys from Matmos were nerdy academics from the Bay, but I just did not want The Soft Pink Truth to lose its funk-nastiness. AND IT HAS NOT! It is no exageration to say that any track on this album could devastate a dancefloor if a proper DJ was giving it a go.
The mood of the album is straight gutterpunk, which is great. We need more of this in America today. From the lyrics of the second track which go, "Do they owe us a living? ....Of course they do. Of course they do. Of course they f**king do!", speaking about our government and society. THen from about the middle of the record on, the sex psychosis takes over with lines like one from 'I Owe it to the Girls' which opens with "I've got the clap. I'm going crazy." And the song about Jesus is too much for the faint of heart. But oooooooh, its a party!