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GERLING
Headcleaner (INFEC111CD) Infectious 2002 14 Tracks. 58mins20secs. Buy this album on line now |
Gerling hardly give it a rest as they pile up songs as if their lives were depending on it. Headcleaner starts on a gentle note with the Air-esque Phazer Kids In The Windy City, but soon picks up speed with the uplifting Dust Me Selecta. Inspired by the electro disco of Daft Punk and the groove distillation of Basement Jaxx, this song features Inga Liljstrom on vocals. Vaguely reminiscent of Lisa Stansfield in her Coldcut days, she brings a soulful touch to this excellent floor filler. The Daft Punk influence resurfaces later on on Hot Computer, a humorous, if slightly too obvious, song about internet porn which features a festival of vocoded voices, and on the cleverer Serpentheadz. The best moment of this album is to be found on the superb Windmills & Birdbaths. The song, inspired by the eccentric universe of Björk, offers a nice contrasting atmosphere to the rest of the songs, and is beautifully supported by the vocals and charming lyrics of Solex. The track that will have everybody talking about Gerling though is G-House Project, a collaboration with midget pop superstar and fellow Aussie Kylie Minogue. After meeting miss Minogue in a pub, the trio had her dropping off for real in there studio the next day. Here, the ultimate pop princess reinforces her club credential with this absolute stomper which should keep the temperature well up all over Europe this summer. The album concludes on a similar note to its beginning with the delicate We Design The Future, a perfect pop song for the next millennium. In between these rather interesting, if disparate, moments, Gerling insist on inserting their original rawer saturated indie rock attempts. If some of the songs are somewhat interesting (Summer Lake Rewind, Deer In You), they however sound ever so slightly out of place and are more miss than hit in their majority. Despite these pitfalls, Headcleaner has too much to offer to be ignored.
Gerling demonstrate with this album that there is more to Australia than bush rock and dreadful soaps. Headcleaner sounds more like a homemade party compilation than a proper album, and because of this, retains a candour that most would kill for.
| 01 | Phazer Kids In The Windy City | 08 | Hot Computer |
| 02 | Dust Me Selecta | 09 | Serpentheadz |
| 03 | The Manual | 10 | The Deer In You |
| 04 | G-House Project | 11 | Windmills & Birdbaths Pt. 1 |
| 05 | Fight Revolution Team | 12 | Windmills & Birdbaths Pt. 2 |
| 06 | Brother Keith On Destructor Mountain (4001) | 13 | Summer Lake Rewind |
| 07 | Deka | 14 | We Design The Future |
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HEADCLEANER Infectious 2002 Buy it on
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Phazer Kidz
In The Windy City
Dust Me Selecta High Jackers Manual G-House Project Fight Revolution Team Brother Keith On Destructor Deka Hot Computer Serpentheadz The Deer In You Windmills And Birdbaths Pt. 1 Windmills And Birdbaths Pt. 2 Summer Lake Rewind We Design The Future |
| GERLING
Very informative site about this Australian pop/dance combo. Contains all the usuals: discography, biography, downlaods and more... |
| INFECTIOUS
Home of Ash, My Vitriol and other rock outfit, this label has been going for some time now and proved consistent all the way through. |