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Maybe I was too young to really grasp the 80s, but I gotta say that if Triangle Forest echo that new-wave attitude and style as much as I think they do, I’d be down for investing in a time machine. On Takeover, the Providence, RI-based band manages to brilliantly conjure up and modernize the ghosts of Duran Duran, the Eurythmics, the Police and other heavyweights without sounding like neo bands like the Killers. With vocoder ‘future vocals,’ slick old-school drum machines and key-tars dropping brooding yet poppy melodies, Takeover is a veritable history lesson that sounds as fun as it does convincing. Triangle Forest play Sunday (August 20) at Sneaky Dee’s.
