Reflections of Darkness - Music Magazine - THE GIRL & THE ROBOT

Details: Written by: Daniela Vorndran; Published: 24 March 2010

So “While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart.” (“The Wizard of Oz”) The odyssey continues: Earlier this year, THE GIRL & THE ROBOT set out in their quest to find love in our heartless society on their double feature single “Whole/Flowers”. Now they expand their mission. Like the Tinman desperately seeking his lost heart in the wonderful world of Oz, also the debut album of Plastique and her Swedish Tinman Deadbeat has become a quest for warmth, love and passion.

In twelve timelessly beautiful, crystal clear Electro pearls, the gorgeous girl acts side by side with an intrinsically cold-hearted robot, causing him to produce anything but deadhearted or cold melodies with his sequencers. No wonder with a personified sin like Plastique by his side. Ethereal, enigmatic, bewitched and utterly succumbing, her voice instills this certain little something into the floating tracks between retro charm and urban chic. And when she sensually sighs the words “I will always love you until the end of time” in the last song, listeners and robots alike have become highly addicted to her.

One certainly succumbs way earlier to the tantalizing spell of this unique project – to be more precise already in the driving rhythms of the opening track “Another Love”, a song effortlessly filling the gap between LADYTRON and CLIENT. This impeccable taste for style never leaves a surprisingly characteristic and independent debut release: Glittering minimal drops, passionate synth soundscapes, gripping sequences, part dreamy, part stomping beats and a huge dose of yearning somewhere between COVENANT and RÖYKSOPP all become vocally ennobled by Plastique. This woman will even melt synthetic robot circuitries!

As with little Dorothy who finds herself in the world of Oz after a cyclone, also “The Beauty Of Decay” marks the onset of a fantastic journey, leaving behind daily routines and heading for a world in which even robots have hearts. And with the spherical Electro dreams of THE GIRL & THE ROBOT, this world seems as close as never before. “The Beauty Of Decay” comes as a multiply folded digipack containing all the lyrics as well as exclusive pictures capturing the songs’ wallowing eroticism.

Album Details

Bandmembers: Deadbeat & Plastique
Release-Date: March 26th, 2010
Genre: Electro / Minimalistic / New Wave
Year of foundation: 2009

Tracklisting
01. Intro
02. Whole
03. I Lost Control
04. Never Ever
05. Please Stay
06. Crash Course in Hate
07. The Isle
08. I Will Always Be With You
09. Another Love
10. Flowers
11. Prayer
12. Shot

Discography
“Whole/Flowers” 2010 - double feature single
“The Beauty Of Decay” 2010 - Album

Links

Videolink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS92XzLpqfw
Order: http://www.poponaut.de/
The Girl & The Robot @ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thegirlandtherobot
Label: http://www.trisol.de/

Source: Press Release