HTRK - Work (Work,Work)

Ten new tracks from those kings & queens of stripped to the bone, slowburn  noir-sex- disco..building on the critical success  of their 2008 release “Marry Me Tonight” - listed in Wire magazine and NME (8/10) and somehow found its way into the hearts and bedrooms of the disaffected youths (and young at heart) they were aiming for. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs took them on tour, as did The Horrors. In January 2010, wanting to start something new, HTRK organised a “tech-noir” party at Cargo London with Factory Floor and unsung electro genius Andrea Parker. After years of living on a slippery slope, Bassist Sean Stewart committed suicide in March 2010. Jonine Standish and Nigel Yang’s resolve strengthened - “Work (Work,Work) “also sees them take complete control of the producing and mixing duties that build on the skin tight tension of the the first album and develop it to a darker, even more twisted world view. They completed their album in the months following and played a comeback show at the ICA described by the NME as being of “purging redolent beauty”. Stewart’s death will not help HTRK shake the common description of them as dark, despite their intentions. But the new album Work (work, work) is a record of heartbreak, finding another world, with soft allusions to the future. Darkness has been overplayed; it’s too representational now. HTRK do not aim for pitch black or lights off… it’s a murkier, more mysterious, heavy space.

Tracks:

1/ice eyes eis 2/slo glo 3/eat yr heart 4/bending 5/skinny 6/synthetic 7/poison 8/work that body 9/love triangle  10/body double

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