FAN DEATH: REUNITED
Disco may have died in 1979, but it has been reborn in the Vancouver girl disco duo Fan Death. Not quite nu rave, indie dance, or guitar rock disguised by funk undercarriage, these women are straight up downcast, sad symphonic disco with some synth pop sensibility. They started out as the protégés of glam-trash DJ Erol Alkan and in a press release they declare their intention to “make music that recalls the greatest era of electronic pop: Depeche Mode, OMD, New Order, Human League, Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys. Great songs that happened to be electronic, not soulless, repetitious club music that seems to dominate these days.” Their new video, conceived and directed by Dandilion Wind Opaine, features a special extended mix of “Reunited” from their new EP A Coin for the Well. Love it! Make sure you watch it to the end. There might be some things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand.The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It’s like you’re unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting…
also make sure to check out the girls next month at NYC’s Webster Hall on May 7th.
