The English "French Touch"
Salah Hassanpour | Toronto, ON CANADA | 04/25/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Well, ever since Jacques Lu Cont kick-started the now-emerging electro-clash, or electro, or third wave electronica (Whatever) scene back in '99 under his Les Rythmes Digitales guise (an as-yet-not acknowledged fact, mind you), he's been working an even more 80's muse, and now equipped with squelchy keyboards-...guitars and, er, two other guys, he's turned in what amounts to a Duran Duran album for the Radiohead generation under the Zoot Woman guise.But beneath the electro-dance numbers ("Information First"), the vague ...eroticisms ("Jessie") and the cheeky but daring Kraftwerk cover ("The Model") lies the burgeoning songwriter in Lu Cont, as evidenced on the slightly-too-daring acoustic closer, "Holiday Home".Unfortunately for Lu Cont, this is another album that has passed under the North America radar, but even the few people I know who've listened to Living In A Magazine are really feeling this record ..."
Definitely good little gem here
Wesley Walton | salem, or United States | 09/30/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"ok so zoot woman rules. they are kind of like electro hall and oats. it's VERY 80s, and has a kind of soft-rock feel to it, but in the best possible way. hell, they even cover kraftwerk's "the model" and make it sound kind of like mister mister or something. i don't know what i'm talking about, just buy it."
Living in a "TimeWarp"
reVo | Blue Bell, PA USA | 07/27/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Madonna loves them and so shall you.If you long for 1981 to1987 when groups like Spandau Ballet and Johnny Hates Jazz ran amok on the airwaves, long no more. Zoot Woman (aka: Les Rythmes Digitales) have just the saave for you. Syncopated and sequenced, airbrushed to perfection. Songs like "Living in a Magazine" and "You and I" dirty up the water by adding squelching guitar burbles and slightly distorted vocals to keep it fresh. The cover of Kraftwerks "The Model" could have been lifted from a Cars album circa 1981 in its tone (and synthesizer drone) but with pretty boy vocals. Finally songs like "It's Automatic" with its TR808 drum rolls and hi hats, vocoder harmonizing and Fender Rhodes melody make it a perfect song to dance lazily to. To sum up, If groups like ABC, Breathe, and Level 42 litter your old record collection then"Living in a Magazine" may be your salvation. Enjoy!"
Track Listings (11) - Disc #1