Josef K - Entomology
bleak, alienated but potentially still the soundtrack to a really great Saturday night
| 12 Nov 2006
Album title:
Entomology
Artist:
Josef K
Label:
Domino
This compilation, released by the extra-efficient Domino, takes a few rarities, takes from the original recording sessions and mixes them up with songs from some of the albums that actually saw the light of day. It's a thrilling glimpse of a band whose arty alienation and intellectualised disco perfectly represented an era when it was cool to be an existentialist, when the Cure were referencing Camus in Killing an Arab instead of singing songs about love at the weekend. One of the titles, Fun and Frenzy, perfectly encapsulates the Josef K sound: bleak, alienated but potentially still the soundtrack to a really great Saturday night. Scandalously, they ended up a footnote to the success of Franz and friends, rather than getting the attention they deserved. I expect that Kafka might have had some sympathy. [Jasper Hamill]
Entomology' is out on November 20.
http://www.josefk.net/