"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, the debut album of Plastique and her Swedish Tinman Deadbeat has become a similar 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 a certain little something into the floating tracks, somewher 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 will have become highly addicted to her.
It is certainly difficult to succumb much earlier that this to the tantalizing spell of this unique project – in the driving rhythms of the opening track "Another Love", a song effortlessly filling the gap between LADYTRON and CLIENT. This impeccable taste and 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 melt even synthetic robot circuitries!
As with little Dorothy, who finds herself in the world of Oz after a cyclone, "The Beauty of Decay" marks the onset of a fantastic journey, leaving behind the 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 closer than ever before.
"The Beauty of Decay" comes as a multiply folded digipak containing all the lyrics as well as exclusive pictures capturing the songs' wallowing eroticism.
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