Shelley/Devoto - Twenty-five years after releasing Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP (featuring 'Boredom,' 'Breakdown,' 'Times Up,' and 'Friend of Mine') on their own New Hormones label, Pete Shelly and Howard Devoto collaborated again . In 2001, Cooking Vinyl produced Buzzkunst, an album that manages to capture both previous discoveries while simultaneously treading new ground. Buzzkunst finds Devoto resigned to a life as a photo-librarian, no longer seeking to live off of his creativity, but with over a decade's worth of credentials from Magazine and Luxuria. And while Buzzkunst owes heavily to Magazine and Luxuria's art-damaged electronica, it often feels more akin to Eno's Another Green World or Bowie's Low.
Buzzcocks crossovers do appear occasionally, perhaps as entrance for curious fans ('Till the Stars in His Eyes Are Dead'), the majority of the album explores analog synth soundscapes, dark wave, and distorted drum machines. Devoto supplies an eerie vocal presence similar to his previous work but remains detached emotionally from this often bleak electronic/synthetic soundtrack. God, I hate to resort to hoity-toity literary allusions, but his delivery is akin to Meursault from The Stranger. Cold, detached and unaffected. His comfort with his disconnection is hardly soothing but seems to be a perfect fit for the trapped-in-the-CPU sound underscoring his sterile delivery.
Devoto on the 'System Blues', " I wanted to write a blues song. Pete came up with this wonderful murky soundscape instead. Legend has it that "Tell them it's been wonderful," were the dying words of the philosopher Wittgenstein." (So that sort of one-ups my brooding-teenager level reference.)
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