Maria And The Gay - Greatest Hits Vol : 1 - Big Print - ETC9

Maria Dada, from Lebanon, and Manchester's Amy Pennington, open their debut with Daddy's Bulge, two shouty schoolgirls traversing the bristly ridge of Captain Beefheart's Sue Egypt with a drum machine in tow.

Doomed is bed-sit electro-pop, home-taped by Duracell Gary Numans, and Oh Boy She Moans is a sluggardly Seventies Fall rant. Eighties fixtions surface in the muffled, no-budget, power ballad Berlin and in a lint fluffed reading of Billy Idol's White Wedding.
But is Greatest Hits Vol : 1 an album proper, or just the audible run-off of an arch performance art project?

(16/10/11)