The New Wave continues....

[oneirophrenia]

You know, it really does my half-mechanical heart good to know that there is still great New Wave music kicking around out there. Recently, I've been listening to a lot of stuff by:

The Killers
I Am The World Trade Center
The Hong Kong
The Faint
Broken Spindles (a Faint side-project)
!!!
...and, of course,
My Favorite
The Pulsars (as always)
The Good Life
B! Machine
Cosmicity

and a wide range of other contemporary Newer Wave acts whose names escape me now, mainly because I'm probably not as fond of their stuff as I am of the material listed above. I am completely in Liebe with the Killers album Hot Fuss, which sounds so much like 1984 it ain't even funny....Imagine The Cars crossed with postpunk, Gary Numan, and Missing Persons (minus the chick vocalist), and you have The Killers.

I really need to get back into DJing, dammit.

Comments

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

If you like them, then DEFINITELY check out Broken Spindles and The Pulsars. Emminently good stuff. The Pulsars S/T album is out-of-print, but you can score copies of it used on Amazon.com for, like, $2--and it'll be the best damned $2 you will have ever spent. :)

[inmostlight.livejournal.com]

Huh, what are Broken Spindles like? I didn't even know the Faint had a side project.

And I'm totally digging that !!! album I picked up yesterday. Listened to it three times already. I'd probably classify them more under "jam band" than "new wave", but they're still cool...

[ancilla.livejournal.com]

you can download a couple mp3s from the saddle creek site :D http://www.saddle-creek.com/bands/brokenspindles/ then click on downloads

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

I think Broken Spindles is the bassist from The Faint. Great fucking band--very Numanesque.