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By Ron Garmon Dance Dance Revolution Can the blessed haze of Utopia be realized on dance floors? Smart people, from Einstein to the Bar-Kays, affirm so, but The Pinker Tones count on it. Their surrealist disco broke worldwide back in 2006 with ,The Million Color Revolution, a surprise smash that sent the Barcelona duo — Mister Furia and Professor Manso — on a long series of tours that put them face-to-face with their audience. Its follow-up, Wild Animals, is a series of synth-gilt pelvic meditations on the the real world stars and audience both occupy, with tracks like “Worker Bees” and “Sexy Robot” distilling the anomie into bootilicious joy. “It’s how we see our work,” says Furia. “It may be right and it may be wrong, no? The first is more colorful and in Wild Animals, we’ve chosen the mirror. That’s why the letters on the [album] cover are made out of mirrors. The cover is the forest floor and it reflects the sky and the trees above it. We’re playing with many elements of reflection on this album.” Everything on this album is very direct and that probably has to do with how we made it,” he continues, “because we were constantly touring after Million Colors and we’d rush back home to our little studio in Barcelona called Pinkerlands. It’s out in the forest and we love it very much. All this energy and inspiration and the different people we met was synthesized into the new album. Very direct and energetic. ‘Hold On’ is probably a very strong statement of where we were when we started to write the album. I think it actually was the first one. It’s based on a haiku about holding on to your dreams. This helped us on tour and gave us a positive idea to focus on — not forgetting that we’re doing the music we like and not to get lost and follow the good path.” What are the grim specifics behind “24”? “It speaks of part of our generation and younger people,” Furia says. “We chose 24, because that’s the age you’re forced to do something after university and you’re pushed to do something and you’re not thought of as a complete person yet. Housing is extremely expensive and people still live with their parents. These are complicated problems for [which] there are no easy answers and we ask people to go beyond superficiality. It’s supposed to make the people react in a positive way. Their relentlessly cheerful nature and anthropomorphized cuddle-bunny fanbase seems best described as “surrealist disco.” “It’s quite accurate for our live show,” he laughs. “The surreal element is there, as we’re Dalists and admirers of [Salvador] Dali. I spend a lot of time near the house where he spent most of the year and it’s a very magnetic and strange place. There’s a very strong connection with that and the disco element is there as well. The live show is very, very kinetic — the whole universe as disco party. It’s a perfect designation.” On the web: thepinkertones.com |
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