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Jupiter One are a four-piece band hailing from Brooklyn, and Platform Moon is a song hailing from, well, the 1980s. Don't try looking it up in an atlas - we're talking temporal, not spatial distances here, so don't be suprised if after a few listens to Platform Moon you find yourself wearing a 'Frankie Says Relax' T-shirt, drinking Malibu, and actually enjoying a film starring Eddie Murphy.
Time-travelling shenanigans aside, Platform Moon is a stadium anthem sans irony, a privileged look back to a time when bands would regularly compete in competitions to see who could shovel the most guitar pedal effects, vocal treatments and 'zap!' synth effects into the four treasured minutes of a 45rpm single. More's the pity, then, that Jupiter One inhabit the 21st Century: they'd have won every contest hands down, and probably received a gold star for extra reverb.
And that's the problem with Platform Moon. It is the lost fourteenth track from Australian space-rockers The Church's late 80s masterpiece Gold Afternoon Fix, and as such is a startling example of how well one can facsimile not just the sound of a band, but also every guitar line and vocal tic that you'd expect them to deploy on a track like this. So, yeah, there's nothing per se wrong with this, and people of my age (i.e. old) will undoubtedly enjoy its slavish attention to detail, but it still seems to me a little like indie rock's equivalent of building a perfectly functional Model T Ford or a scale model of the Ark Royal out of lollypop sticks.
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