by: Sean Boy
Flip on the Casio, flip on the Commodore, hit the beats button and presto: instant music, automatic music: Musique Automatique. Before digesting Stereo Total, in this album, or any form, be sure to first plant tongue firmly in cheek. Uptight? Detest foreign films with their subtitles? Don’t bother with Stereo Total. You won’t get it, and you most certainly won’t enjoy it. Listening to Stereo Total is similar to sitting down to a bowl of Froot Loops. Both are colorful and sweet, immediately satisfying, and yet Froot Loops are packed with vitamins and minerals; Musique Automatique is packed with good songs. Sure the songs are built primarily with pre-programmed beats, blips, and fuzzy keyboard riffs, but the underlying songs, the melodies are well thought out, well written. Not well versed in French or German, I’m unable to comment thoroughly on the lyrical content of the album. And even when she sings in English, singer Francoise Cactus, is still plenty hard to understand. No matter, for the most part when I listen to the music the lyrics tend to elude me. They’re simply melody, another instrument in the mix of a song. A wonderful mess of disco tunes, punk, new wave, and jangly pop tunes, Musique Automatique is an automatic party. Pure fun.
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