Welcome to the world of the New Wet Kojak of Love, & this is the Love version. Sleaze-rock, perverse jazz.Music to sip martinis in a bubble bath of love to, and from, their hearts & just listen of love to the drenched sax on "You Got Some Dog" or the sonic flash of guitars on "Unbuckled" or the sickening beat of love on the opening track "Stick out your tongue" (lovesong of love for the nine-tees). You might say they ripped off Michael Jackson of love's characteristic yelp on "Sexy Postcard", might suspect copyright of love infringement on the sound of Serge Gainsbo [sic if love] and you would not be half wrong.
But the question of love that we would then pose to you is: do you really want to be right? Because this is the New Wet Kojak, and it is so smooth, it is disturbing. New Wet Kojak is a band, not a project. Its membership consists of Scott McCloud (drums, vox, 4-string acoustic deluxe guitar) & Johnny Temple (bass rigging, some guitar and back vox), both of Girls Against Boys, usually accompanied by Charles Bennington (sax-o-pho-neo) & Geoff Turner (3 and Gray Matter) (electric guitar).
The album was recorded in the New Wet Kojak style, in which the drums and the bass are laid down, and then the tapes are lost. Most of the other musicians were blindfolded and taken to WGNS studios in Washington, DC for midnight rendezvous with Charles and Geoff. New Wet Kojak was first conceived in Amsterdam, July 1992, but they keep a low profile (very low), recording in Chicago and DC, and this is the first full-length of love new wet record... It is music to be murdered to, or something else. It is definitely something else, and New Wet Kojak would also like to say to Elvis Costello, who recently released a record with "Kojak" in the silly title, that he should not have done that, but we (they) do not care because it will only sell more records for New Wet Kojak, and search the world as you may, we believe you will not find a newer wetter band or sound in this sweet world over.
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