ENTERTAINMENT
ENTERTAINMENT
“…music to be played at night, preferably in abandoned warehouses for people who know that the best kind of dancing is done with the shoulders and the best kind of hairstyles involve hairspray.”
Entertainment is raw and bleak. A stark darkness, seeped in glammed up desperation and fractured grooves in an age co-opted by laptop bedsitters coping gothic moves as an attempt to distinguish hacked soundscapes from the rave and hippo sect.
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Emerging from the new crop of US underground acts updating the American Deathrock + UK Post Punk aesthetic. Channeling the best parts of early 80s goth from a thousand years away. They’ve often been described as a perfect amalgamation of the sum of their influences, the Lost Boys fronting a punk rock Japan, the sound of death on vinyl, wrapped in layers of spaced-out dub, post punk shards, tinny synths, and cavernous silence.
In 2008 Entertainment released the album “Gender” as a split release on NY art house label Duchess Archive and Atl indie label Stickfigure. One of the darkest albums of the time. Devoid of the humor that often skirt around the edges of Deathrock, but not completely removed from absurdist notions “Gender” had an immediate dissonant effect on anyone who came across it. Although only pressed on a small run it found it self in places as diverse as Echo Park indie record stores, on exhibition in art galleries in the Netherlands, and even in the hands of high-end fashion designer Rick Owens. Since its release “Gender” continues to find new audiences, being praised by modern artists like Deb Demure (Drab Majesty) and Matt McJunkins (Poppy, A Perfect Circle,The Beta Machine).
In 2021/22 Entertainment finally committed to releasing new tracks in the form of the the EPs Horror Pt 1 & 2, after years of teasing demos and remixes online.
Like early punk and post punk bands before them, the statement of performance has always been most important to Entertainment, often shifting and revamping songs for years before committing them to vinyl. Since 2009 Entertainment have performed across the U.S. along side legendary and up and coming artists as diverse as: Actors, Ashe Code, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, TV on the Radio, Christian Death, Glass Candy, oft Kill, Faith + the Muse, IAMX, L.A. Witch, White Ring, Cinema Strange, Ultra Sunn, Modern English, and more.
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“There is an art to making the prickling heat of agitated music approachable, and they have master that… mixing the era following Punk where melodic cadences were being tested, with the strangulated indie possibilities, and roughening them both up, with a twist of bitter Goth/Deathrock innuendo and attitude”
- Mick Mercer
“… a dark energy that pulses through to your very core. Addictive and atmospheric… the kind of music that tickles the atoms of your nightmares… like The Cure but midnight black.”
- Yakk Magazine
“Eerie synth lines, churning bass, incisive guitars, and a heady mix of hard-hitting organic and electronic percussion make up the mclaustrophobic sound, aided and abetted by Trey Ehart’s snarling vocals, soaked in unsettling phase effects. The band has never been afraid to embrace the more visceral side of the post-punk spectrum, channeling bands like Virgin Prunes, Pornography-era Cure, Kommunity FK, and early Modern English”
- Post Punk.com
“There was a strict dress code that favoured anything in black and looked like it belonged to an S&M dungeon.”
“Searing is the only work I can conjure up that transcends everything they play. Photos do them no justice… synthesizers burn through the black, shimmering sound. They seemed to revel in the imminence of an unhappy ending; pale and frail. Possibly the darkest, most tortured sound in post-punk.”
Nails scratch your face with glee. The orchestration is razor sharp.
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