After the Beta

(Morning Star, Friday 16 May 2008)

ALBUM: Black Affair - Pleasure, Pressure, Point
(V2 Cooperative Music)

STEVE Mason has taken a massive leap from the Beta Band and King Biscuit Time with Black Affair's debut.

Pleasure, Pressure, Point is the very distillation of sleazy 1980s clubs, taking in everyone from Depeche Mode to Gary Numan with unsettling results.

Sleaze drips from every note, like a study of Eurodisco with a light S&M twist.