ELECTRIC CAFÉ [AKA: TECHNO POP]

Electric Cafe (or Techno Pop) has been an album that I've been putting off for a while, in fear that I would find it to be terrible. As it turns out, I wasn't wrong - this album is bad. I was hoping for maybe an only slightly-lesser version of Tour de France, but this is completely unenjoyable and cold disco pop electronica that manages to pack in every element about '80s electronic music that I absolutely hate. Perhaps this album could've benefited from less vocal activity. Any interesting electronic elements that Kraftwerk had utilized in the past are now entirely absent. Electric Cafe is just a fluke, though. A terrible mis-step after the great Computerwelt.