Wednesday 16 September 2009

Defend Moscow - Die Tonight


Hun grote voorbeeld zijn de Pet Shop Boys. Sound is 80's elektro/disco/pop. Achter de naam Defend Moscow zit een diepere gedachte: "The way communism played out – a great, noble idea that went wrong – is a metaphor for everything we do in life, and for great pop music."

UK band with 'leftist' elektro groove. Like The Guardian wrote: They believe their iconography and general interest in Russian 20th-century history perfectly (you know, Perfectly, the great lost PSBs album from 1989) mirrors the way the Pet Shop Boys inveigled lofty/arty ideas into the mainstream via their hummable pop tunes. "The way communism played out – a great, noble idea that went wrong – is a metaphor for everything we do in life, and for great pop music," asserts frontman Jon Beck..

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