Rebirth of the Century is as apt a title as La Vogue could have decided upon.  Rebirth of a Century is a 10 track CD that spans all of the nearly 15 years that La Vogue has been creating synth-pop music.  While this is not a 'best of' compilation, Rebirth in actually an album of reworked / updated La Vogue tracks.  Some of the pieces (Somebody New and A World Outside Your Door) were written during a phase when La Vogue had gone through a name change.  Both of these pieces (originally recorded under the moniker One Hit Wonder) are catchy little synth-pop pieces that emit La Vogue's admiration for bands such as Erasure and Yazoo.  Aside from a jumpy synth pattern, the vocally driven Visions of Night also contains some unique breaks that are riddled with various other light sequences.  Wounds are Healing is another vocal driven track, but one this one the music is not as textured or as thick as some of the other pieces.  If you're looking for quirky than Sex Robot is your kind of track.  Wet beats mixed with a steady rhythm, airy sequences and crisp vocals, Sex Robot is an extremely catchy piece all the way around.  Interstellar is an instrumental that does manage to create a spacey styled musical atmosphere.  The final track, A World Outside Your Door, follows a similar pattern as Wounds are Healing in that the vocals are the most important aspect of the piece and the music only acts as a springboard for them.  On Rebirth of a Century La Vogue manage to both recreate the 80's synth-pop sound, but they also add in some 90's elements that take the sound one step further.  I'm curious to see if they stick with this same style or if they will now decide to move their music completely into the 90's.
      
SYNTHPHONY RECORDS                           La Vogue is:
P.O. Box 1285                                                     Daniel Beckman / Anders Larsson / Jörgen Larsson
Bronx, NY 10451-1285                                       Jarmo Ollila / Robert Sjögren / Urban Svensson
USA                                                                     Contact La Vogue @
e-mail: Synthphony@aol.com                         e-mail: lavogue@swipnet.se
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