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Dead Disco - City Place (Playlouder)
UK release date: 12 June 2006
Dead Disco - City Place

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With a band name like Dead Disco, you can almost predict the music that will follow. Synths? Check. New wave stylings? Check. Prevailing mood of angst and hopelessness? Check. But before you sigh and condemn this band to the post-punk, post-rock, art-punk, disco-punk, art-pop (or whatever is indeed the latest trend these days) dungeon, I command thee to halt and consider City Place as evidence for the defence! This, quite simply, is excellent.

Dead Disco are a three-girl, one-guy quartet (the male is the drummer, somewhat predictably) from Leeds attracting a fair amount of media attention from the likes of NME and the painfully cool i-D. City Place begins with a tantalising, bubbling synth effect over energetic new wave drums which set the tone for the slice of moody electro-pop that is to follow. It sounds, throughout, like a darker Human League, with more venom and bitterness than Phil Oakey's mob.

Victoria Hesketh's vocals alternate between Blondie's Deborah Harry (particularly on the breakdown at just over the minute mark) and Berlin's Teri Nunn. Indeed, the whole project sounds a lot like early Berlin (who were a spectacularly filthy synth-rock act before they ventured into soft rock with Take My Breath Away, don't you know). Dead Disco manage to capture the wonderful pop sensibility of both Blondie and Berlin and this marks them as an act to keep your beady little eyes on in the coming years. The lesson: never judge a band by its name alone.


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