Moving Units

If Blur's Damon Albarn or the Strokes' Julian Casablancas lost some of their 'tude and got down and dirty in the disco, you'd have something like the Moving Units. Dance-punk may be a flavor of the month, but this release shows the style at its best: songs like "Between Us and Them" and "Anyone" have an infectious urgency that won't leave you anytime soon.

When the original late-seventies New Wave spread east to west, Los Angeles produced a
few leading bands such as X and a lot of crafty but unoriginal followers such as the Motels
and Missing Persons. As heirs to those middle-alphabet bands, L.A.'s Moving Units join the
Killers, the Stills and other current singles providers to comprise neo-New Wave's second
string. Their debut long-player proves that this humble position isn't without cha... More >