Ok! Getting back on this - these are backdated to the date I first heard them for posterity purposes, but as anyone who's paying any attention at all will notice, they were written much later (all the way out to 5/20/12 in this case). Anyway, this was one I listened to in anticipation of going to a (pretty great, actually) show w/ Quincy herself.
This is, if nothing else at all, a sexy album. The synths are slinky, the beats crisply understated, and then there's Grimes's voice itself. At first it evokes the kind of overinflected mewling that seems really hot these days, but it's used to sulk through weird, neondark spaces, to inhabit them and stalk the stalkers. A quiet menace keeps Grimes from being just another wierd-cute object of affection.
Crucially, the reverb knob is kept in check. There's atmosphere to be sure, but it is more Twin Shadow earned than Atlas Sound demanded, more crisply retro, evoking patch cables and LFO's instead of Protools.
That said, at its heart, this is 80's-flecked, mewling girl music, and that is a sound that is played the hell out. That it dodges so many of the pitfalls keeps it on my good side, but this doesn't stun me enough to rise beyond the high end of 3.5/5
You might like this if: you like analogy synths and robot cat girls from space. You need a funky groove to fuck to.
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