Unisex

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 50:26

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10.13.11
Blueboy, Unisex
1994 | Label: Sarah Records / Virtual

If there were a competition for “least macho band of all time,” Blueboy would stare all their rivals into submission. Keith Girdler sings like a timid romantic who’s slinking away from a rebuff; the rest of the group shrugs, hovers, purrs, and avoids rocking as often as possible. “Self Portrait,” the centerpiece of their second album, may be the peak of their aesthetic pose, a deliberately narcissistic paean that rejects the possibility of romance beyond the self (“T-E-A-S-E the girls, I say”). It’s a gorgeous record, and precious in multiple senses.

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Blueboy may very well be the most effete and gentle band in the history of indie-pop. Rather than hacking out shambling pop like some of their labelmates on Sarah Records, they deal in jazzy acoustic guitars, melodramatic strings, tinkling pianos, and some of the most affectedly sweet vocals to be found anywhere — the closest available comparison would be the baroque pop of Shelleyan Orphan. It would be easy to dismiss Unisex as effeminate English easy-listening, but surprisingly, the album is incredibly well-written, and a pleasant listen throughout. After a while, their style doesn’t seem as bland and conventional as it does at first — they’ve taken “pop” to such an extreme that they sound completely unlike any other band. – Nitsuh Abebe

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