The
combination deal on this cassette is an ingenious idea because when you have 90
minutes of space, sometimes it’s too much for a single album or even a split,
so just let two albums go together. Why
not?
Peach
& Plum start us off with some synth beats ala The Brood. This goes into some soap opera-like dramatic
tones before we begin to feel nautical (something between that and the
X-Files). There is some random 8bit
trance and then it becomes triumphant and from the 1980’s, which makes me think
of graduating for some reason.
There
is a pretty piano piece and a space laser show leading into rhythmic loops and
then spoken words. Some of these
vocals near the end get a bit dark and remind me of Nine Inch Nails, but only
on that one quieter song they did on “Pretty Hate Machine”.
The
Politesse side of things is Miami Vice fuzz synth. It can slow down a little bit to resemble
Twin Peaks somehow, but it is none the less funky. There are some vocals, a mess of drums and
then it takes a turn into island garage rock, which is kind of like Weezer but
also something all its own category.
The end of this side finds me thinking about Melrose Place, even though I’ve
never watched the show.
Two
great albums, one low price. How can
you go wrong?
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