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Death by sexy

Posted Feb 26, 2010

When Interpol's debut album emerged in 2002 in a bluster of hipster adoration, their championing of influences like The Chameleons and Echo & The Bunnymen was a necessary reappraisal of a post-punk aesthetic that had fallen into vigorous unfashionability. So it's a perfectly reasonable postmodern progression to find 2010 blossoming with the fragrant musical reminiscences of, well, post-post-punk.

 Consider a rundown of the nascent decade's hipper-than-possibly-imaginable acts: Hurts sound almost exactly like the Pet Shop Boys; The Drums are all 1982-ish Cure; and The xx could hardly be distinguished from early New Order. And what's that you say? Where's the new...Bananarama?

Behold! The impossibly charming estro-duo going by the name of Fan Death, match not only the gloriously shambolic fashion sense of Karen, Siobhan and Sarah, but also their adorably iconic ironic detachment. With their sophomore outing, A Coin For the Well (which we’re going to pretend is a sneering comment on banker profligacy), they seem utterly poised for outré superstardom. Indeed, if you’re not seduced by the graceful disco exuberance of “Cannibal” or the aloof funk lassitude of brilliant new single “Reunited”, we suggest you start shopping for burial plots.


Like the ‘rama girls before them, the comely and resplendently monikered (would we kid you?) Dandilion Wind Opaine and Marta Jaciubek-McKeever marry bewitching sing-song ennui with languid West Indian rhythms and a grandiose dose of heavenly synthesized orchestral atmospherics. It’s the sort of record best paired with filterless Gitanes, cheap Bordeaux and disposable springtime foreign love affairs.

And in case you still weren’t sure just how bloody cool Fan Death are, their name refers to the Korean superstition that a fan left running all night will eventually kill everyone in the room. We can’t think of a sexier way to go.

Check out Fan Death's music video-Reunited

 

Ken Scrudato

 

Photo credits: Leigh Righton

 

TAGS: music fandeath rock audio magazine fashion magazine review musician

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