Cobra Starship - Anything For Love
Onstensibly this place is about my life, and while Makeup For The Silence’s focus seems to be fixed on the past these last couple weeks, I’ve been drowning in the present. On top of working 60 hour weeks, I’m trying to balance my showgoing, two playoff-bound fantasy baseball teams, the upcoming fantasy football season, knocking out a review here and there for PropertyOfZack (and potentially getting involved with a soon-to-be-launched site as well), adding some new coding to the site, spending time with friends, and maybe getting some sleep somewhere in between. Meanwhile, somehow, we’re two thirds of a way through a year that feels like it’s just barely started. Whizz whizz!
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, to say the least. Part of my way of keeping things from feeling like they’ve gotten too far out of control is tearing through new releases as fast as I can, playing catch-up for a couple months of too-busy-to-listen-to-new-stuff-aside-from-what-I’m-reviewing-ness and clearing out the backlog.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s been digging around the past as of late. Witness “Anything For Love” off the just-released Cobra Starship album Night Shades, in which Gabe Saporta eats up New Order, 1980-style OMD the Human League and Vince Clarke-era Depeche Mode, and shits out pure classic synthpop bliss. It’s easily my favorite thing I’ve heard in weeks; I Just Can’t Get Enough of it!
I was actually initially planning on reviewing this album, but then shelved it as things got busy. But now that I’ve actually gotten around to listening to it, I’ve found the whole thing so intriguing that I think I’m going to end up reviewing it anyway. I don’t love it as much as I wanted to, and I don’t hate it as much as I was afraid I might, but it’s gotten me pondering pop — the way it’s changed over the past few years; the retromania discussion that’s all over the musicweb this week; and a whole host of other things — like very little else lately has.
While the album is currently somewhere in that neither-good-nor-bad territory for me, this track is unequivocably WIN.
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can’t get enough
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