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Stunning surprise synth pop record from artsy prog post rock band!

Stunning surprise synth pop record from artsy prog post rock band! Buyer beware even if you love Trans Am and are into music like their album Red Line, then go buy their new one Sex Change instead which is also awesome. At the time TA was released, it may have been the very first 21st century retro ironic 80's synth pop, and it was so well received except by some old fans of the band.

Like a trailer for the Trans Am movie

If this record had been released six months later or produced by the DFA, the results would have been no different, but critics would have been slathering all over it. Suitably, Trans Am's 6th record did find the band purposely relinquishing some creative control to an outside engineer/producer, in order to present the material in a new light. Not a culmination of everything the band had done to date -- that record was Red Line -- TA's examination of the band's influences and the ways they had come together over the prior few albums should not have been that much of a surprise to fans. As it is, it is a semi-successful exploration of 80's production values, when even power metal had an electronic sheen to it and hard rock often had a dance beat. From the New Orderish opening track "Cold War," the title of which places the album firmly in the era it reflects, to the pounding Tubes-like synth rock of "You Will Be There" to the dreamy guitar lines of "Afternight" (imagine early U2 crossed with Disintegration-era Cure), Trans Am reveal a pastiche masterwork which both reveres and ridicules the uncelebrated genres they explore here. The nature of such a project does make the record a bit less challenging than their underappreciated earlier works; however, TA's accessibility makes a solid gateway to the intense riffing of The Surveillance, the cold apocalyptic atmospheres of Futureworld, and especially the sprawling percussive experimentation of Red Line. Think of TA as a dumbed-down advertisement for what they usually do, and as such it is recommended for anyone looking for entry-level Trans Am, or simply for lovers of half-ironic, danceable spins on the '80s.

Biography

Formed: 1990 in Washington DC

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Trans Am are loosely associated with the mid-'90s post-rock scene centered around Tortoise, Ui, Labradford, Windy & Carl, etc., and the Thrill Jockey, Kranky, UHF, and Southern labels, among others. Although a vast distance separates Trans Am's albums, all of them are concerned with an extreme, somewhat humorous reorientation of the clichés and conventions of rock music,...
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