The A-Z of New Music nearly came to a standstill today – new music beginning with ‘I’ – not as easy as it sounds. But eventually I decided on…..Ice Choir.
A listen to Ice Choir and you could be mistaken in thinking that you have stepped back to the 1980s and disaster that was New Romantic music. Why any band would want to replicate the music of the 80s is a mystery to me (I was an 80s teenager and I am still scarred from the experience of listening to ABC and Modern Romance). Their debut sing ‘Two Rings’ is synthpop at its finest, that is, if you like your music: synthetic, programmed and uninspiring. As shocking as it sounds, Ice Choir are hoping to release a whole album of this trash in 2012. It has been near on 25 years since the New Romantic pop sound was at its height, and if the phrase ‘what goes around comes around’ is true we will shortly be inundated with more. So dust off the shoulder pads, swoop the fringe and get down to the synthetic sound of Ice Choir…..
Overall, Ice Choir get a big fat ‘U’……..
Today’s blog was brought to you by the letter ‘I’…….
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Wow that sounds awful and I love everything 80’s apart from the second half of the decade! I think you either love it or hate the 80’s.
I think you may be right – I’m gutted I was a teenager in the 80s – the music was so naff