An appealingly brainy mix of the Go-Betweens and T. Rex, New Wave drips with the same sissyboy-gone-bad irony the Kinks' Ray Davies perfected 25 years ago. But now it's the '90s, babe: When head Auteur Luke Haines campily writes about marrying a ''show girl,'' he takes her bowling, gets her high, and ends the song with an old Kraftwerk riff. A-


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