Tuesday Listening

Track List:

01 Legal Tender
02 Evangeline
03 Talking Hotel Arbat Blues
04 (Passport Kontrol)
05 All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
06 I’m Confused
07 (White City)
08 Nyet Spasiba
09 Officer of Hearts
10 (It’s Not Me, It’s You)
11 Thy Will Be Done
12 Radio Kaliningrad

Face Control - Handsome Furs

The second album by this Montreal band draws inspiration from Eastern Europe and re-maps Eastern Bloc surveillance state themes to contemporary life, showing the irony of our acceptance of self-monitoring through blogs, credit/debit accounts, surveillance cameras, and GPS devices. The album's juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats with jagged, dissonant and frail guitars convey what it is to be human in the 21st century. At the same time, it provides the means to opt out.