Release Date: 1/01/1982
Recording Date: 1/1982
Tracks: 13
Length: 00:58:19 Hrs
Label: Columbia
Type: CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- New Wave, Post-Punk, Dance-Rock
Album Tracks (13)
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What the Critics Say
Those danceable beats, that tough-girl stance -- maybe somebody at Columbia thought the label was getting its own Blondie by buying up 415 Records and its principal asset, Romeo Void. Certainly, Benefactor was a more commercial-sounding effort than their debut album, with the band even agreeing to eviscerate the four-letter word in "Never Say Never," and elsewhere playing up-tempo dance-rock that almost, but not quite, overcame the disaffection of Debora Iyall's lyrics. But Romeo Void still was less a Blondie clone than an heir to X-Ray Spex or the Bush Tetras, playing bass-heavy, minimalist rock behind a pissed-off singer who, unlike Deborah Harry, wasn't kidding. "You don't get it?" asked Iyall. "Rain on you. And the world disappears." ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
