SO HOLOGRAMIC

1. Life! It's a Shame, Gang of Four
The purity of GoF's downward trajectory was almost admirable. They're at about 3000 ft here, and the ground is getting rapidly closer...

2. Loose Translation, The New Pornographers
I like my New Pornographers' tracks to go doodle doodle doodle. This one only goes doodle doodle...

3. United States of Surrealism, Turn On
A Stereolab/High Llamas side project. Look, I know I have a problem, but I swear I'm getting help.

4. TVC 15, David Bowie
If you can possibly withstand that “Oh oh oh oh oh” stuff at the beginning, you just don't know your robot. And shame on you for it...

5. Helen of Troy, John Cale
A “shiny, shiny” that lies somewhere between Venus in Furs and Hayse Fantayzee. That's some pretty fucked up real estate right there...