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And then she heard the echo of the BIG BANG -
Sylvarluxe's third disc is a potent blend of art pop experimentation and highly developed controlled
danceable chaos. An overt sexuality always informs Sylvarluxe music but on this outing modern
combustible politics mixes with the expressionist libidinous lyrics. At times the disc sounds like an
updated soundtrack to Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" and other times like a cocktail party
gone horribly wrong. A sense of loss and regret pervades and though the disc ends with resignation
it does so in a stately grand manner.
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H.C.E. - We are prepared to go to the gates of hell... but no further.
Sylvarluxe has created a truly unique and inspiring soundtrack to this full on, experimental, avant
garde movie. Lush and decaying music pervades as a six year old girl quotes such luminaries as
Franz Kafka, Marcel Duchamp, The Book of the Dead, Pascal, Ibsen, Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft
and many others that touchess on everything from Egyptian, Greek, and Norse mythology to the
French Revolution and World War II, and then on to September 11. As one listens to this soundtrack
one conjures images of a post apocalyptic world as a child tells us what went wrong.
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VIVA : "so what" she said as she trashed the place like a hurricane.
Sylvarluxe records truly cosmopolitan music. Opener "Viva" is a lush-sounding song, all angular grace
and danger. "Good Morning Midnight" sees Katy singing of nightclub ennui in a way Bryan Ferry would
applaud. "The Tragic Death of a French Rock'n'Roll Star" is pithy and reminiscent of Serge Gainsbourg.
"He was found naked, sprawled out on a fur rug, a cigarette dangling from his lips" they sing. This
record is as beautiful and oddly glacial as a supermodel.
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