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REWORK
- PLEASURE IS PRETTY
After several releases on Frankfurt based label Playhouse
Rework now present their second longplayer on which they continue
their work on thrilling post-retro-like New Wave hits. “And although
Electroclash may have run itself ragged, Rework hasn't stopped giving
it another shot. Combined with a new rock-rooted attitude and the
new female front singer Sascha Hedgehog, who finds herself singing
'Love Love Love Yeah' abandoning Gallic sensuality in favour of
Hoxton-esque disenchantment, programmers Daniel Varga and Michael
Kuebler wear their sunglasses at night, punching out beats fresh
out of 1981.“ (J. Meggitt)
For the release Rework have chosen the joint venture between Pavlek
Records (Berlin) and Allscore (Stuttgart) as their partners. Avoiding
a long and nerve-racking label search, they preferred to settle
the release within their related network. According to the new formed
band-appeal in performance and sounding of the record, they decided
to leave Playhouse for this „roadtrip“. The record felt bit too
rocky for the guys from Frankfurt and so Rework came up with the
idea of leaving the label for the longplayer, but keeping it tight
with Playhouse in order to continue dropping their maxi outputs
there. The record may not be seen as a turn in the Rework sound,
it’s rather a logical progression of the band: Keeping in touch
with dance-floor-culture and at the same time opening up to a more
new wave orientated kind of feeling to the music. As result the
record is filled with their well appreciated cold dance-floor hits
and elektro-guitar-synth-ballads. All disguised with straight rhythm
patterns and synth-guitar lines in tradition and emotion of Eighties
club culture and their house music background. Besides that and
thanks to their new singer they also pushed up their ready to rock
glam-factor, when they enter stage and start to pump their „who
loves you“ electro wave sound through the p.a.-stacks. „Ready for
pressure, ready for pleasure...“ „don’t fuck with love, it’s fucking
life...“ and „you are so sick and sweet, I am losing myself...“
are some of the lyrical benchmarks, they transport.
Rework LIVE
www.myspace.com/wannarework
Press
youlovemymewzick.com: "Rework ...
remind me of Ladytron mixed with New Young Pony Club... with not
as annoying vocals, and almost better than both."
Cuemix Magazine: "An
album that combines dancefloor and a indefinable New Wave Punk attitude.
Absolute brilliant and pathbreaking."
indiedancefloor.com: "...hell
of a good thing...awesome music..."
boomkat: "Welcome return
for the Rework - you know what you're getting here, or should do
by now - 007 floor ready to go disco, uttered by the most deadpan
germanic voice since the Flying Lizards assaulted James Brown. ...
so cold in fact its very cool indeed."
Tracklisting:
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01. |
wrong in all your ways |
4:08 |
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02. |
check your vox |
4:44 |
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03. |
losing myself |
3:53 |
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04. |
not what you see |
0:53 |
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05. |
cant wait |
3:38 |
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06. |
questions |
2:51 |
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07. |
come on |
4:10 |
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08. |
love love love yeah |
5:06 |
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09. |
i want to be like |
3:33 |
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10. |
pleasure is pretty |
4:27 |
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11. |
what she wants |
3:01 |
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12. |
christiane |
0:20 |
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13. |
bus driver (cd bonus
track) |
3:05 |
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