Entertainment Gender 2008 Entertainment from Atlanta, Georgia, are back with a new album, 2008's "Gender" available on CD/LP. Entertainment take dark, post-punk, gothic concept back to the drawing board, removing the complication and dispensing with the miserable pop-sensibilities of the latest crop of 'post-punk' bandwagoners over the past half decade. What they achieve with surrealistic, visually descriptive lyrics, and the opium-den like pace is ultimately parallel to none other than 'Only Theatre of Pain', oddly enough.

The album opens with two warbling numbers laden with clawing guitars and somnambulistic wailing, while dissonant keyboards float off in the distance. From there it picks up, but the percussions maintain a steady pace throughout, keeping 'Gender' not simply sedate, but more opiated. Not until 'New Joy', into the last half of the album does the guitar seem to sober up, if just for a moment, before sinking back into the haze. Ironically, the last song is the one that starts showing teeth and claws, outside of the back-and-forth of the rest of the album.