Plastic Soul Boys are a new anonymous synth pop group with an unknown pedigree stretching back to the days of CBGB’s and the Leather bars of the bowery, they prefer to stand behind the glory hole of pop magic than front and centre. Currently based in Los Angeles they are on a mission to make you dance to unexpected things, a mission they certainly succeed at with covers of classics by William Bell and Chips Moman/Dan Penn.
The synth click track opening as the synths begin to flow with autotuned out of recognizability vocals start to come out of the speakers an all sorts of other places, making this the first of two singles I'm reviewing today about admitting your happy proud to be gay, this has a silky smooth message of joy and hope to get all slinky too on the dancefloor at your local torch song Hi-NRG disco explosion now you are happy to admit the truth.
The b-side is a super laid back version of Dark End Of the Street, this isn't the scary as hell one Diamanda Galas sings about, more like James Carr goes gently disco in a way that's perfect, to trick some kid into hearing great old songs, wondering who wrote them, if you heard this while out and about it would make you stop, go what a Synthpop version of Dark End Of the Street , it must be the end times, What, what, whatever next!
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