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STOP THE FUTURE
Fat Wreck Chords
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This quintet from Portland, Oregon, traffic in the same whirring keyboards and buzzing guitars that the Killers and the Bravery use to win over young women who aren’t old enough to remember the Duran Duran tunes they’re paying tribute to. (See Doris Henson, above.) But the Epoxies don’t share their more popular peers’ thirst for It-scene cool; like Devo, these music geeks represent for the awkward kids who get off on new wave’s paranoid retro-futurism, its unselfconscious sci-fi jones, and the way the music streamlines the energy of punk rock into something more accessible. Not that this underground cred means they have anything more to sing about than Interpol. "There’s radiation in my TV set," frontwoman Roxy Epoxy complains in "Radiation," the lead track on this their second album. "I guess I know that, but it hasn’t got me yet." Still, there’s something homely and comforting about Stop the Future; it’s not as thrillingly heartsick as the Killers’ stuff, but it does its modest job. The Epoxies + the Aquabats | July 2 | Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston | 617.228.6000
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