It’s a relief that music like this is still there to be discovered, lurking just out of arm’s reach in the digital pre-history. At a time when every shred of avant-disco’s shadowiest past would seem to have been aired out on YouTube and Facebook, DFA came up with some mind-blowing archival dance music from late …
With Sparks: No.1 In Heaven, Ron and Russell Mael delivered an album which, while not performing well commercially, would prove one of their most influential records A decade into a career which had already seen the eclectic and eccentric Sparks establish themselves as a pair of shapeshifting mavericks whose music transcended boundaries, even the most …
This was Gainsbourg’s last studio album before he died. Gainsbourg always adapted to the times; here he went deeper into dance and tight ‘80s funk type grooves with his songs. On top of this, he had refined his songwriting to its most articulate – the lyrics were surreal and very tongue in cheek, more so …
