Single Review: Stop/Eject – I Am A Social Network
The second single from Midland electro Goth outfit Stop/Eject is, according to the press release, ‘an anachronistic zeitgeist comparison of modern socialising methods to the bloody history of humanity’. Well, I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean but fortunately I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for electro Goth and this is exactly what we have here. Reminiscent of Bauhaus in their later years (think Bela Lugosi’s Dead) crossed with Joy Division it’s a cracking song with angular guitars and the kind of urgency in the vocals that Ian Curtis used to deliver so well. Lyrically it has some interesting lines, ’the fear of handshakes might just save your soul’ and ‘immunity in anonymity’ I particularly like, but whether, as they suggest, social networking will be the downfall of mankind is another matter. Nonetheless I really like this and I look forward to hearing more! 4/5
Out now on download.
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