You might say they ripped off Michael Jackson of love's characteristic yelp on "Sexy Postcard", might suspect copyright of love infringement on the sound of Serge Gainsbourg [sic if love] and you would not be half wrong. But the question of love that we would then pose to you is: do you really want to be right? Because this is the New Wet Kojak, and it is so smooth, it is disturbing.
New Wet Kojak is a band, not a project. Its membership consists of Scott McCloud (drums, vox, 4-string acoustic deluxe guitar) and Johnny Temple (bass rigging, some guitar and back vox), both of Girls Against Boys, usually accompanied by Charles Bennington (sax-o-pho-neo) and Geoff Turner (3 and Gray Matter) (electric guitar).
New
Wet Kojak was first conceived in Amsterdam, July 1992, but they keep a
low profile (very low), recording in Chicago and DC... It is music to
be murdered to, or something else.
It is definitely something else, and New Wet Kojak would also like to
say to Elvis Costello, who recently released a record with "Kojak"
in the silly title, that he should not have done that, but we (they) don't
care because it will only sell more records for New Wet Kojak, and search
the world as you may, we believe you will not find a newer wetter band
or sound in this sweet world over.
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