DAME AREA - Toda La Mentira Sobre Dame Area LP electronic and countless others

and countless others

Demilich and other oddities

Whitened African rhythms beat up no-wave disco pleasure points

April 2017

and Sonny's trademark Americana voice are a-plenty on the most affectionate and immediate album from the San Francisco band

DAME AREA - Toda La Mentira Sobre Dame Area LP electronic and countless othersGridlocked minimal synth mechanics are riven with insurgent noise and dub echoes on La Nueva Era (The New Era) while the fierce hedonism of Innamorata del tuo Controllo (In Love with your Control) evokes striking alternative histories; Gino Soccio meets Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, the Italo years of Liaisons Dangereuses, Nitzer Ebb reworked by Bobby O. Conversely, the disarming finale A volte me sembra (Sometimes it seems to me) is dreamlike