Album review: Black Affair
BLACK AFFAIR Pleasure Pressure Point **** V2 VVR1050491, £9.99
In which Beta Band founder Steve Mason, aided by Warp recording artist Jimmy Edgar, celebrates the musical influences of his youth: the slinkiest examples of Eighties electronica.
It is more skintight leather-clad DAF than louche eye-linered Soft Cell, all shimmery synth lines underpinned by throbbing bass lines – 'It's Real' – or the strangely polite kinkiness of 'It Goes Like This'.
This is sparingly bitter and pleasingly positive, agreeably different and really rather good.
Download this: It Goes Like This, It's Real
Email to a friend
Print this page- Family mourn death of Glasgow ‘fight’ schoolboy
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers administration: Fans fear Duff & Phelps claims could scare off Green
- Rangers takeover: triple penalty punishment enough, says Johnston
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Scottish independence: Alex Salmond’s pledge to sign up 1m voters
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Sunday 27 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 10 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
