A few more reviews
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http://tighttothenail.com/review-teledrome-self-titled/"Cards on the table, this one caught me totally caught me off guard, and in the best way possible. I mean how many hardcore bands screaming about ?until the day we die? can you take, am I right? So when some super ?80s style digi-punk lands in the review pile, it gives my eardrums a boner and my actual boner a hard-on. Dark, moody, and synth-heavy; this self-titled debut LP by Calgary, Alberta?s Teledrome hits somewhere between historically revered favorites like Gary Numan or Duran Duran and revivalists like Total Control or Lost Sounds; although definitely less aggressive than the latter.
Perhaps the most unavoidable comparison though is to Digital Leather. Ryan Sadler, the main man behind Teledrome, sounds like a dead ringer for Shawn Foree on the mic. Or, perchance, that should be the other way around? I don?t know; let?s just say they sound like each other and call it good.
Sadler has crafted an album that walks the line between morose, teary-eyed new wave and bouncy, irresistible electro-pop songs that could be playing during the high school dance scene in a ?80s teen movie. ?New Motion? invokes the sulky romanticism of The Cure, while the upbeat rhythm of ?Dial Tone? has me pirouetting around the room like Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox in the ?Dancin? in the Dark? video. Although the overall driving force is symbol-free drum programming, brain-searing synths, and robotic pronunciations, there?s plenty of heartstring-tugging basslines and agitated guitars to appeal to my punk rock sensibilities. Songs like ?Antenna? and ?Blood Drips? are a little less idiosyncratic, and allow for a bit of erratic thrashing about.
It?s funny, as a kid riding the bus to school in the ?80s this was the kind of stuff that dominated pop radio. I burned through millions of AA batteries on my knockoff Walkman trying to hear anything but synth; rap, punk, hair metal, R&B, you name it. Thankfully nostalgia doesn?t play by the rules because, holy crap, does it ever sound so great in the present day. This has given my ears so many orgasms they?re dripping semen. If I had a Delorean and 2.21 gigawatts I?d set the dial to 1983, go back, find John Hughes, convince him to make a movie about neon wayfarer and lipstick-clad robots that break out of weekend detention to take over the World, and then use this as the soundtrack."
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http://grayowlpoint.com/2014/03/27/review-teledrome-teledrome/"A trend in synth-heavy sound has weaved its way into every corner of the musical hemisphere. Using digital substitution for instruments is now a norm in emerging artists dabbling in every genre. Teledrome follow with their brand of cyber-punk, new-wave and industrial-tinged goth. Their melodious, synth?y cavalcade of blips, bleeps, quips, and quacks should?ve been the soundtrack to the 1995 cult film, Hackers. Once we progress into invading the space-time continuum and inject that into music, maybe then we can combine the two.
The Calgary outfit are the brainchild of Ryan Sadler, who writes and records for Teledrome. The band?s debut self-titled album was released mid-February in Canada through Mammoth Cave Records. Their sound has been compared to cult-punks The Spits mixed with the quirky stylings of Gary Numan. In a nutshell, the comparison is on point, but I would hesitate to pinpoint them as ?punk?, in the essence of the word. Most tracks such as ?Dial Tone? and ?Robot? are Duran Duran-esque pop tunes with an upbeat, danceable melody. Once in a while, Teledrome take on a darker edge. The digital ambience created for the rhythm of ?Ultra-Instant? fits snugly with Sadler?s sharp proclamatory barks, (?Ultra-Instant?ultra-violet.??) to create a goth-inspired, new-wave pop tune with an industrial feel. ?Golden Dawn? has a heavy 80s new-wave sound combined with sci-fi inspired lyrics bringing it all back to the fact that the Teledrome album should be the soundtrack to Hackers.
Lack of the three-chord structure, pummelling anarchist overtones and preoccupation with creating dance melodies put Teledrome on a plane far away from being a ?punk? band. Their marketability stems from the fact that they can make you dance and their quirkiness works well with their sound. They toy with old conventions of new-wave?s past, with modern synth sounds that put them in the present and well into the future."
still got about 25 of these available from fdhmusic.com
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