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One could cleverly argue that Valerie Trebeljahr's Lali Puna is the minimally-trimmed late cousin of Serge Gainsbourg's 70 soft-eroticism, that it is Sade cleverly custom-made for tech-heads, that it has cleverly modelled Portishead and Goldfrapp for Krautrock addicts or - even better! - one could cleverly mention that the group has enticed Radiohead's Colin Greenwood up to a level that he's already at its fourth copy and that Andy Weatherall plays it in an infinite loop at home. One could even cleverly state that it cleverly reflects something of the post-millennial ennui. One could very cleverly do all of those clever things. But one could as easily put forward the more incriminating fact that our dear Valerie sounds like the worn-out, seventh-degree cousin of the Velvet Underground's Nico, that she and her boys come up with a mere electronic carbon copy of The Sundays minus Harriet Wheeler's innocent sexiness, that it reminds us of the golden days of Cocteau Twins without any of the balls, let alone the guts. Next one could trip over the communist adolescent poetry in the style of "Don't work for people you can't trust." (Yeah, right!) And most of all, one could impute them the overblown, priggishly intellectual, press sheet that makes mention of some "cleverly hidden counterpoints", the also cleverly hidden "unemotional reduction", "that coaxes its way into your ears with unflustered self-confidence." Yeah, yeah, whatever! The Pet Shop Boys once had a single that far more cleverly invokes what this clever little silver thingy did to me when I tried not to skip it in search of some really clever notes that made me not want to forget this. Why do I spend time reviewing this kind of whining wind-bagginess when there are tons of interesting and innovating releases barking at the gates?
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/lali-puna/scary-world-theory/781/
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