Like things that reemerge -- e.g. David Bowie in 1972, "after a three-year period of experimentation... re-emerged during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego" -- Starfucker are reemerging, but with their signature indie-pop identity intact. Well, mostly. There was a small moment of fluctuating self-assuredness when the band changed their name... several times. But after 3 years of studio silence it looks like Starfucker are making a welcome return in 2011.
The forthcoming album Reptilians is set to release this March, and I can recommend these two songs "Death as a Fetish" and "The White of Noon" as a starting point to the onslaught of listening pleasure you will receive below (where you can hear the whole album). The former is redolent of the old Starfucker, more instrumental, more human, more pop-y like the commercial friendly "Rawnald Gregory Erickson 2nd", whilst the latter has a modern electro-synth sheen to it, layered with incomprehensible lyrics, undulating with perfectly balanced breaks and builds that make "The White of Noon" simply stunning. Both are pure greatness and the whole album is worth at least a modicum of your listening time in this face-paced, crazy-hectic world of music.
Listen To Reptilians here (until March 8th):
For those of you that missed listening to Reptilians for free before March 8th, you can at least download a free track from the album through the Polyvinyl Records website.
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