Radio 4
Gotham! (Gern Blandsten)
by Lex Marburger
First thing: They’re named after a PiL tune. Second: They sound like a sodomized Wire/Gang of Four hybrid. Wait! Don’t leave. I didn’t mean for that to be an insult. I mean, you’ve got some pissed singers, but you’re not sure why they’re mad. I mean, there’s some really angular white boy intellectual funk going on here. And there’s enough crackling non-music stuff going on. I mean non-music, like non-expected.
(PO Box 356 River Edge, NJ, 07661)