my favorite - love at absolute zero
(double agent records, 1999)
My
Favorite's superb debut translates palpable pre-millennial tension into
neon-lit synthesizer drama -- recalling the heyday of the new wave with
none of the irony which sinks like-minded retro-futurists from Romania
to the Rentals, Love at Absolute Zero is the soundtrack to a youth
rebellion that never was, vividly conjuring a teen underworld as
romantic as it is claustrophobic. The album is wonderfully sleek and
cinematic -- songs like "Absolute Beginners Again" and the remarkable
"17 Berlin" unspool like music videos -- and although My Favorite bring
to mind the chrome-plated aesthetics of the synth pop era with uncanny
accuracy, their songs capture a passion and immediacy which the remote
robotics of their antecedents lacked. It's quite simply the best album
of 1983, delivered 16 years after the fact.
- Allmusic.com
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