The Electric Mist – Metaform (Just Records)
Imagine if you will, an intimate adventure, where we try to capture the electronic soul from the ghost of a disco dancer. The ambiguous tale of the doomed and the sensual, told with a songwriter’s detachment, and a sound creator’s charm.
What is kinda thrilling about this collection is the way even languid slinky Soul, is seductively corrupted by an Indie Kid with a love of noise and movement, and rock song hooks that prowl the spaces. And for once, the use of production tricks on the vocal add to the suspense, even the humanity in the songs, somehow the technician reveals a heart.
The Track OCD is a playful ambient miniature, Coldcut meets Lynch back at his place, for drinks and a sway around the statues. Like a lot here it hints at the hedonistic, the full on rave ruckus, but prefers the instability of the outsider.Elsewhere it’s pretty cool hearing an American take on the challenge of the Brit dance indie bands such as Bloc Party and get it totally right, this is indeed the Future Frolic.
Kele hire this guy for some remix work right now.
Metaform even finds a place for giddy theatrics crafting a piece in, ‘’It’s Gotta Be’’ that is all camp Soft Cell, totally free of the retro 80s prison though, with slivers of Flying Lotus and other such innovators.
And in, ‘’Introversion’’ there is even a droll take on the sort of Instrumental dream pop that the Love Unlimited Orchestra would attempt, The Isley Brothers 3007. Smooth but not smooth, it goes down a treat.
This is not for the purists (of any genre) but then again what fun cool music really is? And will make as many enemies as life long fans.
Which one will YOU turn out to be I wonder.
Find out here: http://metaformonline.com/fr_store.cfm
Metaform will be featured on both NBT podcasts during August and September
http://nextbigthing.libsyn.com/
http://nbtdarkelectric.podbean.com/
If you use Internet Explorer you can stream snippets of a couple of the Tunes here
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