Opposite Sex are a curiously modern proposition, eschewing any especially contemporary musical wave, but nibbling omnivorously the rock and pop detritus on the verges of the information superhighway. Once alternative artists were archaeologists, channeling forgotten styles from deleted vinyl. Now all sounds are easily available to plunder.
Opposite Sex’s debut’s opener, Le Rat, has the head rush guitar jangle of their native New Zealand’s Eighties underground, but elsewhere, foppish boy/girl vocals crown sea shanty psych-pop, angular Go-Betweens art rock, space age surf music, and a twee indie-pop waltz.
Neither post punk, nor post rock, Opposite Sex are post everything.
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