W-a-y back in January this year I featured the track Bang Bang Bang by Taste, looking forward to their
Well, in our absence Taste have been busy and delivered the
goods. The Taste EP emerged in
February, with both Bang Bang Bang and
its predecessor Shame Game along with
three other tracks hitting like
Depeche Mode fronted by Nick Cave let loose in a late ‘70s Berlin studio with some
of Kraftwerk’s leftover kit.
Taste consists of La Mverte and Yan Wagner, both names you
should know for their dark electronica, reinforced with Guillaume Marnez and
Marc FKClub.
They’ve now delivered another EP, the charmingly titled four-track Pants Shitters that includes
both Pile of Guilt and Walking Home, two tracks released over
the past few months.
There’s something of the late ‘70s Bowie and Iggy Pop cool here,
with a dark menace not too far below the surface. It’s sophisticated and
polished, but at the same time unsettling, in the best possible way. It should be blasting out the speakers in the early hours of the morning through the dry ice of a haunted nightclub
Meanwhile, the recycling of ‘50s American imagery is a
simple but effective way of juxtaposing the horrors, real and imaginary, of
society alongside the stylishly fantasized version. It may be retro, but it’s more
relevant than ever.
Taste’s good for sure.
