“Come with us / The future’s here to stay / Dance with us / Dance with us.” It’s somewhat incredible to think that it’s been 18 full years (19 now actually, this reissue being released in mid-December) since Oppenheimer Analysis’ self-titled EP inaugurated Veronica Vasicka’s Minimal Wave label. There’s barely a record that could’ve captured its aesthetics more succinctly and these four tracks still sound as fresh as ever. Sometimes, like in the case of “Cold War” (“I thought it was over”—yeah, us too, but oh well), they even come across as atypically topical for a record that embraced the 1980s not only thematically. Time is a flat circle, etc. Kristoffer Cornils
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