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Cute Heels and Devon Disaster’s ‘Slave Toy’ describes our visit to the after-hours living meat raffle. It all begins like an intellectually eviscerated variant of a David Cronenberg fetish, self-confident enough to deliver lines such as ‘hit it hard like a dirty dream’ that bring us back to the heyday of Electroclash. And then the synthesisers kick in, like Argento gloved fingers breaking through the thin veils of this reality, hauling us from an EBM diorama into higher planes of perversion.
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Devon Disaster's new ten-inch record on Germany's Red Lounge Records is a damaged, trashy, speed-fueled good time. Synthesizer instrumentation, cold new wave vocals and a general air of sleaze and self-hating, world-loathing pervy decadence distinguish the songs. This filthy electro-pop record has been on daily rotation at my house since it arrived in the mail last week.
The title says is all: "Make Things Bleed." Digital Leather's Sean Foree has a hand in this somewhere. The two have joined forces previously, both on Digital Leather recordings (most notably on "Blow Machine" and "Sorcerer") and on their own gruesome twosome project, the Cutters. Like Foree's musical fornications, this stuff is much too dark for greater America, which has led to tours and greater critical appreciation in Europe, Mexico and Australia.
LA Vinyl Records Examiner Jan 2010 -Jason Gelt
Devon Disaster explodes the stage with her anti-everything antics, raping the audience in a maniacally masturbational movement best described as de facto, electrash. Her unpredictability ensures the disintegration of status-quo and leaves her fans perversely pleading for more. Her style is Missing Persons meets Blondie and Too Short's bastard son in a blood-stained back alley for unsolicited fornication. Best known for her extensive collaboration with Shawn Foree of Digital Leather, and their love child The Cutters, Devon Disaster opens doors to a feeling one could only hope to ever be consumed by.
IMBECILE Publishing Oct 2008 -
Leather, Latex, songs. Driving Elektropunk (what one called in former times times EBM), angepeitscht from the hard Beats and undercooled Trashnoises of Shawn Foree (DIGITAL LEATHER). Devon Disaster delighted with a voice, which aims directly into the male border area. " Make Things Bleed" and " Little girl" have the potential to become correctly large and on S/M parties the Tanzflächen not only fill. With the postkoitalen Kuschellied " Weekend star" the plate ends. Actually. On the here available CD there are five tracks once again as " Original Recording Session". The 10" like always with
Red Lounge Records in red Vinyl.
OX MAGAZINE Oct Issue 2008 -Matilda Gould
Devon Disaster " Make Things Bleed" (Red Lounge Records) which happens, if one beamt Deborah Harry of Blondie in their best times into a electroclashiges universe? Honestly said notion, but the result would not be allowed to do a certain similarity to the outstanding " Make Things Bleed" exhibit Disaster from Devon. Here a knackige Blondine meets with laszivem singing organ on retrohafte electronics, which comes along times carefully minimum with EBM charm, gladly in addition, punkige omittingness spreads or sounds to coldwavig merciless seductively. At some places a Fünkchen poppige a freedom of movement huscht by the twelve of song, in another place has one the feeling to hear points of contact with Anne Clark. Boundlessly magnificent is however the anschmiegsame " Weekend Star" , which would have actually already earned a place in the Charts with an urgent Refrain and a mad melody guidance. With all that Devon Disaster remain themselves throughout faithful, sound individual and alive. To the seven regular pieces of the disk is usually offered for sale bonus tracks are added on CD - the album on Vinyl - still five, which were inferred from original photograph sessions. Thus one has alternative versions to the selection, which sound even in parts more exciting, as the final versions. Great Electro Clash with Sex Appeal and Retro charm.
ZILLO MAGAZINE Aüril Issue 2009 -Sailer
