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Pleasure Forever | S/T

Hmm, have I been here before?
CD, Sub Pop/Konkurrent

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 22 oktober 2001

"Pleasure Forever is a declaration of will; an incantation of transcendence; a celebration of human desire and the evisceration of excess. Like someone once said, infinity begins with the number 3. Pleasure Forever - the San Francisco trio formerly known as SLAVES - is the musical embodiment of that orgone enigma of human will and desire."
Pleasure Forever's bio is an excercise in pretense; it even contains semicolons, the mark that separates the really pompous from the mere wordy. And what the fuck is an "orgone enigma"? It turns out to be a hoax. It is tempting to say the same about the band, to peel away the syllables and reveal Sigue Sigue Sputnik, but unfortunately Pleasure Forever is just too good for that. Just. Their piano-dominated sound is very European, with influences of Kurt Weill, David Bowie, Gavin Friday, and even Queen. A dark insanity is always lurking just beneath the surface of the lush piano chords and marching rhythms and occassionaly breaks through. What they lack on their aforementioned inspirators, however, is the ability to force the excess and the hedonism into the tight corset of a song. A typical Pleasure Forever song staggers drunk and somewhat directionless through the dark alleyways of the mind. At first, the journey takes you to surprising and unexpected places in 'Any Port in a Storm' and 'Meet Me Eternity', but about halfway through the album you just can't escape the feeling that you've been here before, and by the time you've reached 'Magus Opus' you just want to go home, to your bed. Then the satanic promise of Pleasure Forever turns out to be the lie of Pleasure For About 20 Minutes. Or maybe I just lack the orgone energy to make it to the end.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/pleasure-forever/s-t-1016/1016/
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