Super-sweet fourth album by Maryland stalwarts Trans Am. While still loosely based in knotty, hard-hitting, synth-y math rock, this time it's shaped by vocals -- all-vocoder, at that -- and has some serious krautrock vibes that at times drive them into a queasy, fully synthesized dream-state. The late 90s were a real golden age for techno-angst/fear of a dystopian future that wasn't too far off from the one that we currently live in, and this record has that shit in spades.
Track listing:
1. 1999
2. Television Eyes
3. Futureworld
4. City in Flames
5. Am Rhein
6. Cocaine Computer
7. Runners Standing
8. Futureworld II
9. Positron
10. Sad and Young
If the air was transparent
I'd float away
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Best album these guys ever made. Stone cold punk meets Kraftwerk!
ReplyDeleteI recall buying their (I think 2001) album TA the day it was released at Kim's Video in The Village/NYC
ReplyDeleteand enjoying the f**k out of that disc immediately. The track "Afternight" is still as fresh a melancholy, post-rock gem now as it was then. Stripped down beauty.
Thank you for Futureworld and ((((evereything)))) you do!!!
Cheers
Tz
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ReplyDeletethanks for posting (and re-upping) this one! i didn't realize i'd gotten rid of it until i was jonesin' for it last week and it was gooooooooone. much appreciated, keep up the good and generous work
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