The music of Maxi Geil! and PlayColt embodies the thrill of eighties New York City. It captures the electric seediness and sexuality, it's elegance and it's shabbiness. Born during the best days of Roxy Music and a generation too late for the late 70s no wave and the 80s east village art scene, NYC native Guy Richards Smit captures and breathes out his modern day vision, badly out of control and dancing in the streets. The resulting songs combine a searing critique of American culture's dumbed down pap coupled with a clever appraisal of great American songbook writers Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. The key to Smit's contribution is his understanding of the great lyricists Jacques Brel, Mark E. Smith, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, the Pet Shop Boys and Ray Davies as well as a love for a great melody and infectious rhythms.

For their latest disc, Strange Sensation, lead singer Rebecca Chamberlain recorded a version of Henry Purcell's "Cold Genius Rises" (from his King Arthur opera) -- accompanied by cellist Okkyung Lee.