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Polysics: Neu
[Asian Man]

On my first listen, I fell in love with Neu, the new album from the Polysics.  Completely blown away and inspired, I hammered out a review within minutes of my first listen.  The review was unabashedly glowing, but it didnt quite make sense in the context of what I was reviewing.  None of my words could convey either my profound love for the album nor truly express the exceptional and unique characteristics of the Polysics work. 

Then I had a brainstorm.  I sent my review to a college buddy in Osaka who quickly and expertly translated the review into Japanese for me.  One trip through Babelfish and back into its original language and suddenly my words, now twice removed, made contextual sense.  I dont know if it was the review being sent across the world and back again, or the linguistic transmogrification that did it, but more than I originally ever could, this expresses my deep and resounding respect for the works of this artist:

I am writing in the state of the admiration which is made to be stunning. Polysics have slowly kicked me. Never has a thing been so heart-pumping for me! I put Neu on my CD player as one who does not expect, and now can point to my scarcity on the point as cause of my punishment. The Polysics are a band from Japan by origin, and use an alignment of guitar, bass, drums and synths in order to considerably draw up the spazz punk techno stone of which it is not ashamed. These many tracks flow to the movement and the clear joy and the easy pop of style, everything completely now. These tracks succeed while maintaining the quality which monopolizes them even when thoroughly changing feeling. Making Sense is the most pop sound of Neu; it is moving to the irrational maniac of the sound of Polysics. What pursues in a mellow way, but the building is most pleasurable, and contains that which is unexpected of recent rock albums. Black Out Fall Out on the album edge is for they who vary the techno tracks, with a leaf of the straw raincoat flower type woman singer, and is thought pleasant while looking at that which is enlivened approximately.  I love this album. I am not stopping the experience of this now for a third weekly range. I think of that which changes me thoroughly. I am the Neu person. I seem to like the music which kicks all associations. Perhaps, whether it is I, or the other one who says these things: Buy this.

-Justin Rude
3/29/04

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