Name: Century Plaza
Brand: Dan Sartain

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

tplp1290cd

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-02-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5016958996901

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

tplp1289

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5016958996895

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dan Sartain

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

One Little Independent Records

Staring out from the cover with (non-artificially) blackened eye, paranoid android Dan Sartain goes back to the future for 'Century Plaza' - a new album of darkly nuanced electro-pop, released via One Little Indian. While Suicide and Alan Vega have long been acknowledged influences (a cover of 'Wipeout Beat' features) 'Century Plaza' finds Sartain trolling the British synth-pop wave of '80-'84 - particularly Depeche Mode - for inspiration, opening the record with a funereal remake of 'Walk Among the Cobras'. Lead single 'Sinking in The Shallow End' offers up further provocation, indulging a truly truly outrageous Van Halen-inspired guitar solo (notably the album's sole concession to the instrument). Crepuscular synths and metronomic beats dominate songs like 'Cabrini Green' and 'Feigning Ignorance' - either could have been pulled off a Blade Runner or Escape From New York soundtrack in a parallel universe - while 'First Bloods' and 'Black Party' are pathological US teen anthems that serve Sartain's particular brand of charisma especially well.

Century Plaza

Music GB