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| ARTIST: | John Foxx |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal/Absolute |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Dive, Cinema, Broken Furniture, Crash And Burn, Once In A While, Sex Video, Sidewalking, Ultraviolet / Infrared, She Robot, Dust And Light, Ray 1 / Ray 2, Smoke |
| UPC: | 684340000946 |
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Customer Reviews of Crash & Burn
Like A Bomb The John Foxx of the first Ultravox! record, of the mid-1970s, and the earlier Tiger Lily recordings, is fully present here; the vocal delivery, the music/arrangements, sound and the lyrics still send chills up this spine.
He had something really unique that was let go of when the Foxxless Ultravox had such commercial success in the 1980s. Foxx, too, ventured in a different direction, until the very last glimmer of that decade when he became Nation 12, with Tim Simenon of Bomb The Bass, after living in the U.S. for a time involving himself in Acid/House. Nation 12 released two 12" singles that were fantastic with the same calibre of unusual and evocative artwork that Foxx fans know well! These are nearly impossible to find but well worth experiencing once found.
Crash & Burn continues the Metamatic (1980 first Foxx solo record) feel that many of us missed during the Reagan/Thatcher decade and it is expanded upon because of his collaboration with Louis Gordon, an established artist on his own, which he's had since his mid-'90s "return." In fact Gary Numan also returned in the mid-'90s and both Foxx and Numan continue to get better, which is great!
Even though my favorite on this one is Sex Video, because of its departure from the norm, Dust And Light really stands out for me. It's got the Ultravox Systems Of Romance feel of isolation, exhilaration, (non) participation and sexuality. Ultraviolet Infrared is another that evokes some Ultravox and some Foxx solo, like The Garden and The Golden Section. But only slightly. This is all really new stuff.
A must.
John Foxx still has some surprises up his sleeve
I was beginning to lose faith in the Foxx/Gordon partnership as their last three albums were starting to sound a little formulaic and "same-y" (this includes The Omnidelic Exotour where the duo revamped many of Foxx's older songs to match his new sound) but this album shows them branching out a bit more. At first, when the opener "Dive" began, I sighed in frustration. Not at all a bad song, just more of the same. "Cinema" took me by surprise with its distorted vocals and (possibly synthetic) guitar. Other songs feature distorted vocals as well and the synths are also becoming a bit more aggressive calling to mind KMFDM. The ironic "Sex Video" in particular has an interesting rhythm and some pretty industrial sounding synths. The album's one weak spot is the odd "Ray 1/Ray 2" which sounds like the Silicon Teens all growed up. Why it's on this album (or why it was even recorded for that matter) is a mystery since it's so bizarrely out of place. All in all a great effort from a godfather of the synth rock movement.