(sorry)
Here at Love Machine we're not down with the fetishisation of new music. Generally, old music is always going to be better purely because you're still talking about it way later rather then getting caught up in the hype cycle. However, sometimes a new band comes along which is worth writing about straight away, and today's case in point is The Venus Stare.
Once we got over the disappointment of 'Close To You' not being a Burt Bacharach cover, we enjoyed its 80s-ness, and particularly the cheese rock guitar solo towards the end. Then we enjoyed the pastiche video in which a moustacheod man gets literally injected with a bolt of lightning. Then we enjoyed the incredible Fear of Tigers remix (below). Then we visited Fear of Tigers' MySpace page, saw their background image and had nightmares for weeks.
Close To You is being released on cassette on 22 March, which is worth buying if only to remind you how ludicrously impractical it was as a format and how lucky you are to be around now when you can instantly steal buy anything you want without fear of it being chewed up by a tempramental walkman.
'Close To You' (Fear of Tigers remix) by The Venus Stare
[audio:venusstare-closetoyou-fearoftigersremix.mp3]
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