Review: There are knowns and there are unknowns, but every once in a while, you come across a bona fide known unknown. The known: Ionic label Coq Au Vinyl have unearthed an absurd private press from Newark, recorded at the end of the 70s/dawn of the 80s. The unknown: There's essentially no information on who the musicians are, where and when specifically the material was recorded, or what the vision or ultimate end goal even was. Some have even jumped to calling the project a hoax. The known unknown is that this is a piece of genreless, progressive, challenging and lightyears ahead of its time art pop that distils elements of disco, krautrock, synthpop, punk and folk into a lo-fi sonic stew that equally could've stemmed from young visionaries with too much talent on their hands and no direct avenue to flow it down, or a bunch of seasoned veterans opting to craft the oddest collection of tracks they had the chops to conjure. Regardless of perception, interpretation or opinion, this project swells, struts and slaps with its ludicrous levels of creative abandon.
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