Originally posted by Scott:
Is Impossible a sort of compilation album?
Scott: a handy description from JohnFoxx myspace:
The album also includes two exclusive tracks - ‘Adult Concerns’ and ‘Walk This Way’ - plus ten versions of previously released material. Some of these re-workings are completely new arrangements, others are closer to the live versions.
There’s a raw, analogue, fractured, aggressive style to the material - the closest in sound is 2003’s Crash & Burn but it’s heavier than that album, featuring ‘rusty metallic synths’ and ’shredded’ vocals, as one listener noted. William Burroughs, Guillermo Del Toro's surreal imagary and the strobe-lit, London techno-punk of early Ultravox! are also reference points.
Like an extended John Peel session, the tracks were recorded fast, in the heat of the moment . .
