# certain 80's songs often express an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of plastic nostalgia this resonates as a thunderous echo from the era of cold war paranoia and neon-glowing aor ambition a radical blend of aggressive post-punk and no wave sound capturing teh essence of a decade one fraught with a cultural blend of innovation and intense political anxiety not only serving nostalgia on a plastic platter of heavy guitar riffs but also thoughtful critiques that transcend it own time // republic of bob