The Angular Four
Gang of Four are back. Rhino’s expanded edition of Entertainment! comes out on Tuesday, their current reunion tour is garnering nothing but love, and the current crop of disciples have re-inspired some great rock language.
In a description of their upcoming stand at the Irving Plaza, The New Yorker writes “The Gang’s danceable agitprop was spiked with Andy Gill’s dissonant, staccato guitar attack, whose style led rock critics to start abusing the adjective angular.” True, the word may be over-used, but it is one of the great rock words. Staccato? Too classical stuffy. Spiked? Not danceable. Angular? Modern, mathematical, architectural, opaque. Perfect.