Kas product, French coldwavers, are ice cold. They sing songs about cold people who are dead on the inside, they have frosty dentine ice breath, dance in cold abandoned industrial factories, and they have the coolest hair all the damn time. At their best they sound like what Siouxsie and the Banshees might if they were produced by DAF. "So Young but So Cold" is a poster song for coldwave, and was the title of Tigersushi's So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983
Kas Product - So Young But So Cold
At their worst (which is kind of the best) singer Mona Soyoc's jazz-background-influenced histrionics overpower everything and land them in the realm of cheezy cabaret schtick. This raunchy little roll playing bit she has with her "pussy cat" is exactly what I'm talking about. If you can palate this sort of thing, it's actually really amazing and hilarious.
Kas Product - Pussy X
See the hair in action. Electroclash kids eat your asymmetrical hearts out.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
what's cooler than being cool
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2 comments:
Thank you, Uncle! I've not swum much amongst the coldwaves, so this little post was very refreshing.
FiL
Very pretty design! Keep up the good work. Thanks.
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