Search - Pulsars :: Submission to the Masters

Rightly hailed in their hometown of Chicago as pop phenoms and two of the sexiest guys in show business, brothers Dave and Harry Trumfio make their major-label debut with this ridiculously tuneful five-song E.P. on the new label started by Herb "Tijuana Brass" Alpert, whom the Trumfios recruited to play trumpet on a few tunes. The aesthetic is retro in that it reaches back to the New Wave era-specifically, Gary Numan, Silicon Teens, and Kraftwerk-but futuristic in that those artists envisioned a world that hasn't yet taken shape. In any event, the hooks are timeless in the title track (a cheerful ditty about S&M-take that, Madonna) and "Owed to A Devil" (a song about selling out to a major-label Satan not unlike ol' Herb). Jim Derogatis