Annie Hart is a New York resident. Once in David Lynch favourites Au Revoir Simone. Now she does something rather different. Her latest album The Weight of a Wave is immediately early eighties synthpop Of the kind practiced by the likes of OMD, Ultravox, Flock of Seagulls and Visage. Except with an emotionless, android female voice at its core rather than a male one.
I don't mind at all. I enjoyed that, let's pretend we're robots, stuff first time round. I don't see any reason not to now. There's something ludicrous about it, but hey it's fun and life should really be primarily composed of fun I find. Particularly the older I get.
The Weight of a Wave is primarily built on electronic waves of sound, so it's well named. Those synthy waves of happy uncomplicated melody that OMD primarily built their singles reputation on in the early Eighties. Messages, Enola Gay, Joan of Arc. This is stuff that avoids unnecessary complications. The light and shade that life is actually made up of.
Annie is not concerned with making a record that is either art or dark. This is a self-consciously confectionary diversion. I enjoyed it. It's a nice way to spend half an hour.
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