I know this is going to sound totally cheesy but it’s an emergency that I post about The Emergency. Not because the Melbourne two-piece craft dystopic disco that simultaneously mesmerizes, lulls and mutilates brain cells. Not because their debut album, “Dreams That Money Can Buy”, houses weirder, darker and all together more infectious pop hooks than their predictable dancefloor peers. Not because album opener, “Vanishing Prize”, would be on repeat at that one really awesome club in Heaven. Not because the entire album sounds like the result of Giorgio Moroder and Friedrich Nietzsche eating mushrooms and waxing lyrical about what Nihilism would sound like through analogue synths. No, they’re all reasons why “Dreams That Money Can Buy” is one of the most criminally underrated Aussie albums released in ’09. This post is an emergency because the long haired guy sitting across from me has campaigned for an Emergency blog post since Winter and I fear he may poison my lunch if I don’t do so soon. Listening to the album again, it’s a wonder it took me this long…
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