Scarlet Soho

Divisions of Decency

In the spirit of the new wave of electro being played at the moment Scarlet Soho have produced an album in the spirit of the times. A full band sound with electro clash guitar, synthesisers and a drum machine on some songs. The lead singer sounds like the singer from Manson and has an angst similar to that singer from Placebo. The influences are quite obviously from the 80’s like Paul Newman, Blondie and Jimi Sommerville.

I suppose it really depends on what you like to whether you’ll like this. If you’re a fan of this new wave sound and like a bit of British attitude you could dig it. Personally I didn’t find it too challenging and it seemed a bit rehashed to me. However it is quite tight and certainly captures the times. Whether this sound lasts too long though we’ll just have to wait and see.

http://www.scarletsoho.com

Tareck Ghoneim