John Foxx & Louis Gordon – Crash
and Burn
Released: 2003
Once again written and produced with Louis
Gordon, Crash and Burn picks up from where 2001’s The Pleasures of Electricity left off.
This time however, it's darker, heavier and
more robotic than before, mixing contemporary electroclash with
a heavy Kraftwerk influence. The album opens with the upbeat
"Drive", a track not unlike “Automobile”
from The Pleasures of Electricity. "Cinema" revisits some old familiar
territory and "Broken Furniture" stands out as the
album's most unusual song, with particularly haunting, Metamatic-esque
lyrics. Other highlights include "Dust and
Light", "Ultraviolet/Infrared", and the
mechanical magnificence of "She Robot".
As always for Foxx, this is a very 'visual'
album, instantly summing up images from 1950s science-fiction
b-movies, old horror films and black and white film noire.
What Crash and
Burn might lack in emotional
quality, it makes up with in its raw energy and intense,
quickfire synths. The emotion present on The Pleasures of Electricity is
absent on this record, giving it a rather cold, heartless
quality, which works on some tracks, but often leaves you
yearning for something more.
Crash and Burn was
met with critical praise, and is perhaps Foxx and Gordon's
darkest and heaviest album to date – again offering
something different to its predecessors.
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Thanks to...
Rob Harris, Steve Malins, Peter Young,
everyone from the Metamatic forum, and of course John Foxx and
Louis Gordon.
Credits...
The Drive EP
The Drive EP was
released for Foxx’s 2003 tour and supporting dates with
The Human League. It features both full length and single edits
of "Drive" and "Broken Furniture" from Crash and Burn, as
well as three new b-sides; "Underwater Dreamsex",
"Making Movies" and "Your Shadow".
