POW! - Crack an Egg (2017)

POW! continue their danse macabre in the laser glow of hi-beam synthesizers, with a new batch of synth-punk candy that will rot your teeth: Crack An Egg. Vacuum-sealed, chrome gleaming, propulsion pounding, eyebrows arched and slightly pixelated, this album is like the cupie-doll face beckoning from a digital billboard outside your hovercraft window. From a none-too-distant dystopia and on to your turntable VCFs slowly open across a smogged-out horizon as they urge you to take that 'Necessary Call', warn moodily against a 'Cyberattack', and inexplicably 'Crack An Egg' in honor of the human race. Synthetic earworms squirm into and out of view like twinkling city lights through evening s opaque air, feasting on terse punk skeletons. The neon is buffed to an aerosol sheen by Chris Woodhouse behind the blinking motherboards, with a streetlight or two of Gary Numan's slanting through the door. The automatons know where the party's at - follow them.