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Fake Can Be Just as Good
Rock · 1997 · 8 tracks

Fake Can Be Just as Good

Blonde Redhead

Angular guitars and breathy, interlocking vocals define this 1997 noise-rock pivot. A tense, cinematic document of New York's art-rock underground.

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It's like a Sonic Youth record but with a more mysterious, cinematic French-Italian heart.

A high-tension wire act of angular noise and breathy, intimate mystery.

Fake Can Be Just as Good · vs · Blonde Redhead
Restless+2.8σ

Restless saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 8 Tracks
01
Kazuality
4:26
02
Symphony of Treble
4:11
03
Water
4:42
04
Ego Maniac Kid
4:12
05
Bipolar
5:02
06
Pier Paolo
5:38
07
Oh James
3:33
08
Futurism vs. Passéism
5:05
Moments Worth Waiting For
The dissonant guitar scratch that opens Kazuality, setting a nervous and urgent tone immediately.
The hypnotic repetition of the phrase 'Fake can be just as good' during the bridge of Bipolar.
The transition into French spoken word on the closing track, shifting the album into a cinematic haze.
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