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Appareil
"Judas Kiss"
Format:
CD/Album
Online date:
27/2 2006
Label:
Lobotom Records
Genre:
electro
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Well now. Let me tell you a little something about this album. First of all, for a correct appraisal of its merits, it is essential that you disregard all of the (mis)information provided with it. To fully comprehend its subtle attraction, its exquisite, intoxicating air of decadence and decay, here’s what you need to do:
The time is the early eighties, say 81, could be 82. The place is somewhere in the north of France, not Paris, for a dead certain not Paris. I’m thinking somewhere along the lines of Amiens, Lille, maybe Calais or even Strasbourg; somewhere in the general vicinity of Britain, Belgium and Germany. Why are we here, in this not-so-charming, to be perfectly honest pretty run-down, boring place, where you can sense that any semblance of life it may once have had evaporated long since; overlooked, unregarded, held in contempt?
Why, because we’ve heard of a new band from the area, fronted by Alison Moyet, touring these rapidly dehumanising parts with their equipment loaded into a small lorry (remember, this is an age when electronic music was something that required determination, dedication, and, well, loading space), and anyway, we live around here, too, metaphorically speaking at least.
Songs about betrayal, sex, lust, dance mania but no love in sight; that’s the zeitgeist alright and we’d rather dance than fight.
That is Judas Kiss by Appareil. And in that light, the proper one, its weaknesses, of which there are quite a few, are only dimly visible, serving merely to heighten the doom and gloom and desperate erotomania of the damned. In this fading light, it is beautiful.
/Alexander Jeppsson
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Appareil"Judas Kiss"
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