Satisfact
K Records
Satisfact began as a side project of
Dave Schneider (of Lync and Love as Laughter) and
Matt Steinke (Mocket, Octant), and
unfortunately they've decided that the
project has run its course. The music they
produced as Satisfact was brilliantly
preoccupied with the pervasiveness and
alienating character of technology and
modernity, recalling in some ways Tubeway Army-era Gary Numan. But whenever the hypnotic keyboards and robotic blips and squeaks seem on the verge of carrying the music away, scratchy punk guitars dripping with feedback reassert themselves, joined by a fierce, precise rhythm section and sometimes even cello and violin.
So the sound ends up being something like
Sonic Youth meets
Thomas Dolby. Or maybe what the
Psychedelic Furs would have sounded
like if they were just getting started today. No matter. The point is that Satisfact
was remarkably adroit at mining some of the
musical styles of the past two decades to craft music completely attuned to both the present and the future; a music familiar with the sound of an angry cry echoing off the unfeeling sides of the machines and the skyscrapers. "I'm in a Bad Way" comes from their last record, The Third Meeting at the Third Counter.
Jesse Ashlock
last updated:
08/31/01
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