...according to our Brian on Fri 13 Feb, 2009.
The Gentle People were always one of the dubious acts on Rephlex, cheesy pop music & loungecore for ironic eyebrow raisers everywhere. They've joined the ranks of Elefant records for whom they've provided a new 7" called 'Plastic City'. I'm sorry but this dated pile of doo-doo sounds like Robots in Disguise, the joke electro group on The Mighty Boosh, possibly remixed by Fat Truckers and heavily in debt melody-wise to Ray "Parker" Junior's classic Ghostbusters theme. Totally kitsch & rather uninspiring, I just can't fathom who'd actually want this, as superficially catchy as it is.Limited release of THE GENTLE PEOPLE's first 7" for the Spanish label Elefant. GENTLE PEOPLE vocalist Dougee Dimensional classifies Plastic city as a hard-hitting post- millennial groove espousing the beauty of plastic surgery, collagen, and a little tuck behind the ear. 'You love the knife, it made your life, OH YEAH!'," while "Naughty Nauga" extols the virtues of a mischievous unidentified space creature...
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