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WeirdGear are a 4 piece band from Southend-on-Sea, that use 1970s analogue synthesizers to make music designed for the modern age. They perform completely live, without pre-recorded backing
southend, electronic, electronica, essex, live, synths, electro, indie, prog, new wave, essextronica, weirdgear, experimental, 80s, analogue, london, alternative, weird, psychedelic, disco house
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GAME | review on losingtoday.com
18/05/2009 By Lee
those of you preferring your sounds somewhat coming across as though dimpled and speckled in the unmistakable flavour of a late 70’s / early 80’s post punk electro pop will do well to hook yourselves up to Weird Gear’s ’game’ which finds itself being made available for a limited time via the bands my space player. This Essex based analogue synth collective have to date so far posted one EP in the guise of ’coffee girl’ which we’ll endeavour to track down for future communiqués. ’game’ sees them shimmying up to Mike Spink of Ready Radio Demos fame whose productive craftsmanship has lent the group sound a ’livelier and rockier’ aspect, first and foremost the cut dutifully navigates an unmistakably distinct pop prowess much evidenced in the early outings of both a youthful Depeche Mode and Duran Duran albeit refracted through the viewfinder of a ‘travelogue’ era Human League and decorated in the kind of silky vibrancy and nocturnal shape cutting hollowness that had us here much of the thinking that there’s something of a shared mindset with the likes of the much admired Testcard (in terms of its glacial detachment) and White Rose Movement (due to its uber cooled sassy knowingness) to be found here.
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