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Global Infantilists
12+ albums
post-punknew waverock80sswedish
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REVIEW from 'The Sound', 1983 A DELICATE, romantic, but also startling new talent emerges. It arrives in the form of Stockholm's superficially mild-mannered, but inwardly fiercely passionate Global Infantilists - proud creators of one of '83's most impressive debut offerings, an epic eight-track mini-LP entitled, with stark honesty, 'The Global Infantilists'. The music is gentle, but at the same time it pulsates with a steamy, poetic, dream-like energy. It's also unusual, placing strangely operatic vocals with a bewildering array of instruments that in fact sound far more colossal in number than they actually are. On 'The Global Infantilists' even the puny, and universally unloved household piano manages to play an awe-some role in the mystical scheme of things. The Infantilists conjure a bristling, and somehow eerie power, but always completely without assistance from age-old solutions such as mega-grinding guitars, thunderous drum cascades and the like, instead they get by with just a brimming creative force, loving care, and a quite outstanding grasp of subtlety. They are, truth be told, very unusual ... and also very strange. Being strange has meant that since their formation in 1980, the Global Infantilists have not earnt a single penny. Even so, they've never been tempted to budge an inch from their true musical selves for the sake of commerciality, and now that Abstract have released their debut album over here, they still won't budge. Both Infantilists, namely
