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ARTiST....: john foxx & louis gordon
TiTLE.....: from trash
LABEL.....: Metamatic records
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 71,2 MB
REL.DATE..: 11-10-2006
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01] from trash 04:35
02] freeze frame 03:58
03] your kisses burn 05:01
04] another you 03:47
05] impossible 05:30
06] never let me go 03:16
07] a room as big as a city 04:40
08] a million cars 06:23
09] friendly fire 05:00
10] the one who walks through you 04:05
TOTAL TiME : 46:15 min
John Foxx and Mancunian Electro artist / DJ /
producer Louis Gordon release "From Trash" on 6
November 2006, their fourth album since meeting up
just over 10 years ago, following the likes of
"Shifting City" ( 1997 ), "The Pleasures of
Electricity" ( 2001 ) and "Crash And Burn" (2003).
While Foxx has increasingly experimented with
ambient music via his long-running "Cathedral
Oceans" project and collaborations with the likes
of Harold Budd and Steve Jansen ( ex-Japan ),
"From Trash" takes him right back to his
electronic-rock roots. "Friendly Fire" fuses the
Glitter Band with Iggy Pop and Reproduction-era
The Human League, creating a retro-electro stomp
with a barbed 21st Century lyric. The exquisite
"Never Let Me Go" recalls Laurie Anderson but with
a more emotional twist and the title track swarms
with 'alien invader' comic book imagery while also
alluding to the strangeness of Foxx's own move
from working class Chorley in Lancashire to London
in the 1970's. Like much of the album, there are
possibilities of magic, beauty and re-invention
through stuff that has often been ignored as
inauthentic or synthetic - in short, 'trash'. In
particular Foxx's love of pop often surfaces from
the vampish film noir of "Your Kisses Burn" to the
cyber shuffle of "Freeze Frame". "Another You"
sounds like early Depeche Mode being fronted by
Bryan Ferry but the lyric is an elegant summary of
a character whose world has disappeared to be
replaced by an urban nightmare of shopping malls
and gun crime. The hypnotic "Impossible" also
deals with claustrophobia and the hope of escape -
perhaps to the glimmering metropolis celebrated in
"A Room A Big As A City" which is full of
Kraftwerkian synthesizers but possesses a more
personal and intimate atmosphere than anything
attempted by the man-machiners. Arguably the most
striking track on "From Trash" is "A Million
Cars", a Sinatra-like glorification of the city,
boosted with electro power-chords and a
melodramatic croon from Foxx.
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