LAUGHING GEAR - Freak Lemons LP

Gatefold sleeve.

Highly recommended.

Predominantly influenced by synth bands of the late '70s/'80s such as The Screamers, Nervous Gender and Throbbing Gristle, Laughing Gear’s stunning debut album is a formidable collection of cutting-edge dystopian synth punk and incisive socio-political commentary, delivered with an acid tongue and a wry sense of gallows humour. A finely honed 80s pop sensibility is mixed with heavy doses of vintage synth worship and punk rock antagonism, while the history of underground music is slyly referenced. The result is a defiantly original and unapologetically danceable album brimming with whip-smart lyrics and cunningly crafted songs where hooks and concepts fly thick and fast.