Cobra Killer - Uppers and Downers

A fiesty attitude, short skirts and some famous mates will see these girls through

Album Review by Mark Shukla | 22 Sep 2009
Album title: Uppers and Downers
Artist: Cobra Killer
Label: Monikaenterprise
Release date: 19 Oct

You'd think that after ten years of dicking around with samplers and drum machines that German glitch-pop duo Cobra Killer might have figured out the rudiments of digital composition: maybe tripped over a memorable melody, perhaps even accidentally programmed a rhythm track that didn't send you to sleep? Nah. A feisty attitude, short skirts and some famous mates will see these girls through. Hilariously, both J. Mascis and Thurston Moore are billed as appearing on this album, but you'll be doing better than me if you can pick out their contributions amid the endless vistas of kitsch sloganeering and drab, lifeless loops. It's hard to pinpoint what makes Uppers and Downers such a chore to listen to - although the band's try-hard, ironic posing and overarching sense of pointlessness would ride high on any list of reasons. At a time when electronic music is mutating into countless fascinating forms, nonsense like this is simply redundant.

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