"Just synthesizer and nail polish?"

Recent Casey Spooner photoshoot (via Flickr)

More details about the new Fischerspooner release are emerging. Culture critic Dave Hickey penned the linernotes for the album and his essay "No Choice But To Build It" will appear in the "Odyssey" CD booklet. A source close to the group passed the text on to me.

Hickey writes about the duo's "massive" reshaping of rock and roll, the utter angst they were faced with when making the record and the harmony of their new sound that shows that Fischerspooner is more than just "synthesizer and nail polish."

"(. . .) the stylish stuff that breaks your heart, the elegant confessions, the whispers of techno-deluxe, start feeling less like style and more like your actual feelings. And then there's a shape to everything, an old time record album shape, and you're picking up gold dust from the floor and sowing it through the music like seeds along a cotton row. And it starts to rock---as everything worth doing does. And your room gets bigger, more spacious and gracious, like a ballroom on Mars."

Be one of the first to read Hickey's linernotes. Download it here (Word document).