Odyssey by Fischerspooner

Odyssey

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Odyssey

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Audio CD (April 5, 2005)

Label: Capitol

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I was never a fan of electroclash - too old, too jaded, alternately too indebted and too disgusted by early '80s synthpop. I didn't care for #1 all that much - I bought it out of curiosity (as a Wire fan who wanted to hear "The 15th") after its 3rd (??) release, sometime in 2003, when the fad had just hit American shores but hipsters were already long done with the record. I got this right away back in the spring of 2005 because I thought it might justify the fact that I bought the first one. I'd watched the video for "Just Let Go" on iTunes a few times and found it... okay. Somewhere along the line, though, this album BLEW MY MIND. All those people who are saying this one grows on you are the real deal. Odyssey doesn't simply prove that Fischerspooner are more than a fad, it proves that they are simply brilliant. Brilliant at what they do, and brilliant at navigating pop culture. Start with "Never Win." A great pop song and a great dance song with deceptively simplistic lyrics and a layered coda that will knock you flat on the floor. Move on to "Get Confused" (which sounds almost alien, like Mirwais's first work with Madonna) and the stunning percussion in "Everything to Gain." By the time you realize the awesome thematic connection and musical congruity of "All We Are" and the trippy Boredoms cover at the end of the record, you will be questioning what was so great about "Emerge" in the first place. Fischerspooner - so hip, so memorable, and so ultimately necessary. This is the closest thing the U.S. has to the ironic, intelligent, world-conquering Pet Shop Boys.

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