Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want Soft Pink Truth?

This ten-track 32-minute album sees The Soft Pink Truth's Drew Daniel (one half of San Francisco duo Matmos) returning to his musical roots with a batch of sweetly nostalgic electronic disco covers of classic English punk rock and American hardcore. The beat is turned up loud, nasty guitar riffs come back as fizzly synthesizer zaps, tragedy returns as farce, and sacred truths are ruined.

A perverted tryst between punk lyrical nihilism and silly disco froth, Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? swings both ways. As a stable control group to aid in the comparative analysis of the divergent ideological positions of English punk rock and American hardcore, the record concludes with an a cappella rendition of the Styne and Robin Broadway showtune "Looking Back," previously performed by Carol Channing, a freaky but fitting conclusion to this heartfelt examination of youth culture nostalgia.