John Foxx

Music:

Member Since: 11/25/2005
Band Website: metamatic.com
Sounds Like: JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON - FROM TRASH 'From Trash finds him and Gordon lurking in arty electro Elysium, a place where ennui-laden, robotic vocals glide into throbbing, thumping backbeats; A Million Cars almost bursts into Tainted Love. It's all leavened with a taste of Kraftwerk, especially the romantic Never Let Me Go. Beneath the extraterrestrial exterior, Foxx appears to be having a whale of a time.' Q MAGAZINE 'There are some belters here . . . Another You is a quirky pop song, Impossible is Foxx at his Ultravox best, while Never Let Me Go is vocoded loveliness.' FUTURE MUSIC'The combined work of original Ultravox vocalist John Foxx and Manchester's electro producer Louis Gordon is a thoughtful journey into electronics, from the Germanic stomp of the title track to the Laurie Anderson washes of Never Let Me Go. I'll give this four out of five.' DJ MAGAZINE'Icy electronica from the original (and best) Ultravox frontman . . . The metronomic throb of From Trash suggests night time cityscapes, pulsing like a car-ride through urban neon much like Iggy Pop's mid-seventies Berlin recordings. There's a strong cinematic quality to Foxx's current material, its monochrome moments suggesting some great lost Fritz Lang soundtrack of the imagination.' BIG CHEESE 'Motorik sequencers, glistening synth pads and lyrics of vague, science fiction dystopia. To wit, the title track is a robotic anthem worthy of The Human League's Dare, Freeze Frame is Computer World-era Kraftwerk and Impossible reassembles David Bowie's Always Crashing In The Same Car.' MOJO 'With collaborator Louis Gordon providing a backbone of modern beats, he's produced some excellent albums, such as Crash & Burn (2003), and this album maintains the momentum. The title track delivers a vibrant electronic pulse which suits Foxx's dry vocal delivery perfectly, while Freeze Frame compellingly melds Kraftwerk with Metamatic-era Foxx.' RECORD COLLECTOR'John Foxx makes synthetic-sounding techno-pop with Mancunian DJ, Louis Gordon. Never Let Me Go is a great Laurie Anderson rip-off and the other stuff is pretty good too.' VICE MAGAZINE 'An intriguing wallow in a challenging but absorbing pool of ambience, electro and mood music . . . laced with unexpected outbreaks of pure pop. In league with Mancunian electro wizard and DJ Gordon, John Foxx's interest in cinematic imagery is unleashed more determinedly in a rich collage of colours and moods. Every time you thinks it's getting indulgent, something deliciously mad happens to save the party.' TELETEXT 'From Trash focuses on cleanly constructed vignettes of electro-pop, referencing a sleazier '70s rock past through icy synth lines and catchy melodies. There is melancholy here and yet Foxx's intimate and teasingly distant vocals promise revelation and transformation throughout. Everything from the claustrophobia of Impossible to the delicate optimism of A Room As Big As A City is explored, while A Million Cars is almost a love song to the capital's immense and glittering life.' ROCK SOUND 'Freeze Frame sounds like The Human League fretting about the dehumanising effect of technology, From Trash is a Detroit techno-style paean to star-gazing guttersnipes and Another You features a Bowie-esque subject, the fracturing of personality. Enjoyable stuff.' THE INDEPENDENT'From Trash's synth-driven minimalism is a welcome throwback to the London Blitz - the club, not the krieg - and A Room As Big As A City is like discovering a hidden track on OMD's Architecture & Morality.' CLASSIC ROCK'From Trash may have its dark side but it's an accomplished and varied record, taking a measured approach that achieves more control without compromising on any emotion. He continues in good musical health.' MUSICOMH.COM 'This is definitely their best record to date - nice stomping beats and compulsive electro-melodies throughout.' BARCODE
Sounds like . . . Bryan Ferry fronting Ladytron, Kraftwerk, The Thin White Duke in Berlin, A Clockwork Orange, Neu!, Velvet Underground if they were produced by Florian Schneider, The Faint, Iggy Pop in Berlin remixed by Giorgio Moroder, DJ Hell, Can, Adult., a cross between William Burroughs and Brian Eno, Gary Numan, Fad Gadget, JG Ballard with synthesizers, Laurie Anderson, Cluster, Erik Satie, Max Ernst on a work placement at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Type of Label: Indie