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When trapped in a city filled to capacity with jaded academics, what
is a party girl to do? Get fucked up and reinvent herself, of course.
Now that the label "electro" has been stripped of all meaning and relevance,
the truly fascinating world of nth-generation carbon copies has started
to assert itself. Though Chicago chanteuse/stripper Misty Martinez is
by no means your average social pariah, her second EP recalls the musical
innovations of teenage shut-ins the world over. Her motto may be, "I
am constantly high on cocaine," but quaaludes seem more likely; whether
she's faking an orgasm or whispering, "strangers trading fluids, then
eloping in bruises" over minimal beats equal parts Kraftwerk and 80s
sexpop, Misty sounds completely bored and wasted. The perfect prescription
for a Saturday night. -Russ Waterhouse
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