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Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies review – lad laureate meets euphoric synths
Kevin Lee Kharas’s muttered musings about love and life are given a sumptuous electronic backdrop by producer Patrick King
Opening with the sweeping, Knife-esque club track Loverboy – whose spacey synth intro becomes a refrain throughout the album – We Will Annihilate Our Enemies captures the frantic, sometimes depressing, often exciting feeling of life in a big city, where everyone is fighting and partying and working all the time. Throughout, vocalist Kevin Lee Kharas positions himself as a kind of poet laureate of lad society, delivering his party polemics with an imperious, 2am wisdom: muttering about friendship and youthful hedonism on Wild Sign I Choose You; paying tribute to the endless grind of the city on Loverworld. It’s potent, sometimes ridiculous stuff that producer Patrick King makes sound grand and romantic, girding it with wandering synth lines or exhilarating beats that recall Underworld or, on a song like Towards Horses, even Pet Shop Boys.
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