New York Disco Villains
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The new, self-titled New York Disco Villains album is easier to compare to movies than to other music: Imagine if the B-52s had watched too many Troma films. With their carnivalesque keyboards and bizarre lyrics, the Villains’ songs have the campy, woozy feel of an Ed Wood flick, and the band delights in the seedy and mundane in the same way director John Waters does. (Frontman Clark Watson rocks a similar mustache, incidentally.) - Free Times
The new, self-titled New York Disco Villains album is easier to compare to movies than to other music: Imagine if the B-52s had watched too many Troma films. With their carnivalesque keyboards and bizarre lyrics, the Villains’ songs have the campy, woozy feel of an Ed Wood flick, and the band delights in the seedy and mundane in the same way director John Waters does. (Frontman Clark Watson rocks a similar mustache, incidentally.) - Free Times
New York Disco Villains play smarmy rock that encroaches on comedic territory. With songs titled “Love, Godzilla & Tokyo” and “Gangs Rarely Have a Sense of Humor,” this band’s appealing carnival songs obviously do have a sense of humor, as well as a sense of performance art. - The State
New York Disco Villains play smarmy rock that encroaches on comedic territory. With songs titled “Love, Godzilla & Tokyo” and “Gangs Rarely Have a Sense of Humor,” this band’s appealing carnival songs obviously do have a sense of humor, as well as a sense of performance art. - The State
A neurotic pop show that somehow fuses pop, punk, rock, y'alternative, and some neat Latin grooves into one very distinctive package. This band's refreshing tendency to experiment can lead to a variety of oddities that borrow from such early experimental Einsteins as Frank Zappa, as well as the contemporary theatrics of more current misanthropes such as Ween. - The Daily Gamecock
A neurotic pop show that somehow fuses pop, punk, rock, y'alternative, and some neat Latin grooves into one very distinctive package. This band's refreshing tendency to experiment can lead to a variety of oddities that borrow from such early experimental Einsteins as Frank Zappa, as well as the contemporary theatrics of more current misanthropes such as Ween. - The Daily Gamecock
New York Disco Villains are like a New Wave circus comedy tent that plays Frank Zappa while huffing laughing gas. - Free Times
New York Disco Villains are like a New Wave circus comedy tent that plays Frank Zappa while huffing laughing gas. - Free Times
Discography
Popcorn - 9/2012
New York Disco Villains - 5/2008
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There are those who have long argued that prolonged exposure to unhealthy visual images associated with violent horror or science fiction can negatively affect the development of the human mind. Carnival rockers, The New York Disco Villains, would only confirm this theory.
But, despite being delicately and consistently fed the works of disturbing movie orators like John Carpenter, Lloyd Kaufman, and Lucio Fulci, NYDV has managed to harness their own Freudian id/ego mishaps and concoct ineffable, lyrical folly - silly new wave psalms centered on wonderful, life altering subject matters:
Blossoming love during a Godzilla rampage
Space Leary Astronauts
Zombie piloted hot rods
Fickle alien invaders
Solid musicianship is only surpassed by the band's obsession with the absurd. NYDV has been compared to the likes of Oingo Boingo, They Might Be Giants and Frank Zappa...only without the truck loads of equipment and huge following. Imagine the results of the B-52's composing the soundtrack to a Broadway spectacle based on cheesy Ed Wood celluloid:
Silly? Certainly.
Aimless? Perhaps.
Entertainingly catchy? Guaranteed!
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