Kill Rock Stars
2007
Paris <> Berlin
About This Album
Stereo Total fans could be forgiven for thinking that Paris-Berlin is a reissue or a collection of older songs. Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring have returned to the bolder, lower-fi sound of albums like My Melody, using cheap and cheerful drum machines and keyboards, and guitars that borrow the best from '50s rockabilly, '60s pop and '70s punk and new wave as their sonic palette. After a few years of the duo's more polished approach, it takes a little while to get reacquainted with their rawer side. However, it's the perfect fit for the brash, exuberant feel of these songs -- Paris-Berlin is a party record, and a subversive, political one at that. The Constructivist-inspired album artwork hints at the songs of sex, revolution, and sexual revolution inside, and Göring and Cactus free their minds, bodies and music from any bourgeois preconceptions of what they should be. Countercultural icons of the past and present inspired songs like "Patty Hearst," which finds Stereo Total longing to be freed by America's "princess and terrorist," while "Baby Revolution" sets writer/photographer Bruce LaBruce's sexually liberated manifestos ("the revolution is my boyfriend/the revolution is my girlfriend") to music.
Track List (try tracks 3,10 and 11)

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