CLIENT
Client (Mute)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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I suppose, despite myself, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Eurotrash music. Probably has something to do with growing up in the '80's and, even though I hated much of the cold, synth-based music coming from the UK at the time, it was so much a part of my life that hearing it now causes delightful little nostalgia-ripples, completely uncontrollable. Client is very much like those '80s synth bands, completely humorless, somewhat predictable, powered by electronic drum beats and skeletal keyboard riffs. The songs are mostly about sex and wanting sex and being in control of things, but the lyrics, delivered in an icy deadpan by the band's anonymous English-accented female vocalist(s), come across so flat and robotic that it's hard to perceive any sincerity or passion in the spoken requests for attention. But I suppose it's a sanitary, English-type of love, the clinical sort that Monty Python were always making fun of.

© 2003 - Holly Day