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Steven Brown's third album away from Tuxedomoon is strange, out of
immediate contact with its time and place, almost willfully obscure
at points -- and all the better for it. Searching for Contact makes
for one strange and wonderful late-'80s album, with perhaps only
the contemporaneous work of Foetus and Marc Almond being the
nearest parallels, mashing a slew of ideas -- big band blasts,
industrial-crawl beats, dark arrangements, and singing with
brooding passion -- into an often striking combination. Generally
the emphasis is on quieter rather than louder music, though when
Brown and company turn up the heat, as with the striking opener
"Habit," it can be quite gripping. Brown's sense of theatricality
almost literally manifests itself at points -- "Doe's Day" finds
him acting the MC for a nonexistent theater show, while a
three-part song sequence is literally described as a series of
'scenes,' concluding with a bemusing dialogue -- while other
performances are less sung lyrics than spoken word poetry of sorts.
The emphasis lies with the music first and foremost, though; even
the part satire/part reflection of "In Praise of Money" gets its
power mostly from the mournful yet busy backing. His less
confrontational moments can linger the longest in memory --
"Audiences and Stages" (once more continuing the theme of theater),
brief but beautiful, has Brown in best crooner mode over low, murky
music, while the tenser drama of "This Land," with Brown matched by
a driving though mixed low piano line, and the brief demi-beer hall
singalong/buried electronic noise combination of "De Hamburger
Veermaster" also stand out. LTM's reissue in 2004, once again
sticking to the label's philosophy of providing more for one's
money, adds seven bonus tracks, including the entirety of the Me
and You and the Licorice Stick EP, as well as the single version of
"Last Rendezvous." ~ Ned Raggett
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