The all-dark-clothing urgency of
Iron Curtain's music should make my eyes roll, yet they surprisingly stay firmly in place. Perhaps it's because the paint-it-black keyboard wash and echo-laden vocals of 25 years ago which drip over every track on
Desertion 1982-1988 now finds itself in vogue once again. These tunes sound timely without being retro. Sure, some of the compositions push too hard at being seen as dangerous (the only reason to name a song
Anorexia or
Legalize Heroin is simply to ruffle the hair of the status quo, the same way I post anti-
Poi Dog Pondering musings so as to receive threatening comments). But when the unknown pleasures of
Love Can Never Die and
The Burning begin their mesmerizing climb towards some mysterious ethereal target, you'll feel yourself being lifted off the dance floor into the heavens.
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