Bernard Szajner’s music is anachronistic in the best possible way. His sound is the equivalent of steampunk in science fiction; where steampunk imagined a 19th century that was already computerized, Szajner’s music is an early 1980s ‘rock’ that already seems to incorporates elements of house, techno and electro. The difference, of course, is that steampunk’s universe was retrospectively dreamt up by writers more than 100 years after the 19th century, whereas Szajner’s alternative ’80s sound world was produced when that decade had barely begun. It’s as if he unravelled the standard sequences of 1970s-into-’80s pop history even before they had properly been established.