Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?

Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?
Studio album by The Soft Pink Truth
Released	October 25, 2004
Genre	Electronic, microhouse, experimental techno
Label	Soundslike Tigerbeat6 MEOW110
The Soft Pink Truth chronology
Do You Party? (2003) Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Alternative Press	[3]
Dusted Magazine	[4]
Guardian	[5]
Pitchfork Media	(85%) [6]
PlayLouder	[7]
Q	[8]
Spin	(91%) [8]
Stylus	(B) [9]
Uncut	[8]
URB	[8]

Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? is the second album by the Soft Pink Truth, a side-project of Drew Daniel of the electronic music duo Matmos.

This album consists of covers of various punk rock and hardcore bands from the 1970s and '80s. The album title itself is an allusion to the song title "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?" by the Minutemen from their Double Nickels on the Dime album. Only the last song is not a punk cover.

Track listing

1. "Kitchen" (L. Voag) – 3:05
2. "Do They Owe Us a Living?" (Crass) – 4:43
3. "In School" (Die Kreuzen) – 1:07
4. "Media Friend/V.S.B." (Rudimentary Peni) – 4:57
5. "I Owe It to the Girls" (Teddy & the Frat Girls) – 3:13
6. "Out of Step" (Minor Threat) – 3:01
7. "Real Shocks" (Swell Maps) – 3:39
8. "Confession" (Nervous Gender) – 4:36
9. "Homo-sexual" (Angry Samoans) – 3:08
10. "Lookin' Back" (Carol Channing) – 0:48

Personnel

• Drew Daniel – synthesizer, turntables, vocals, sampling, sequencers, CD players

Extra musicians

• Vicki Bennett – vocals
• Blevin Blectum – vocals
• Martin C. Schmidt – synthesizer, Dumbek, vocals
• Jeremy Scott – vocals
• Dani Siciliano – vocals

Technical staff

• Drew Daniel – editing, mixing
• Xopher Davidson – mastering
• Rex Ray – design

References

1. "Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? by The Soft Pink Truth" . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
2. Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? at AllMusic
3. Alternative Press, Feb 05, p.94
4. "Dusted Reviews: The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?" . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
5. Lynksey, Dorian (28 October 2004). "The Soft Pink Truth, Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?" . Retrieved 19 September 2016– via The Guardian.
6. Pitchfork Media review ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
7. "Playlouder review". Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
8. "Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? by The Soft Pink Truth" . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
9. Stylus review Archived January 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? at Tigerbeat6