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Everyone thinks the '80s were this overly synthesized, super-poppy, cocaine-fueled time in rock-which they were-but they also produced some of the weirdest underground music that has ever existed, precisely because of the crazy, epic singles the major labels were churning out. Canada's Koban channels this stranger side of the decade, taking bits of early industrial, goth and dark-wave right out of the slums of the transgressive New York arts scene. The group mixes all these elements into a dissonant wash of sounds and primal beats, with small traces of pop. This is not a Pitchfork band making obscure '80s music palatable. No, this is just weird.
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