Cargo Records

Annie's Well

Luxury Car are John and Willy Robertson, two brothers from Perth, Scotland; they have been in bands together since they were at school, and took their name from Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66.

They are, technically, an electronic pop duo; however they don't sound remotely like the Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell, Sparks, Erasure, or Goldfrapp. They are not nostalgic for the 1980s, or 1970s Berlin (or 1930s Berlin for that matter). They are not industrial, or camp, or ironic, or minimalist, or Goths, or obsessed with sadomasochistic sex. Where much electronic pop music is cold, stark and hard, Luxury Car prefer warmth and poetry. If it helps at all, Luxury Car have been variously compared to Scott Walker, Pixies and the Aphex Twin. That doesn't help? Oh well. You'll just have to listen to the album.