Wednesday, October 21, 2015

#1928 !!! - As If

Given that dancepunk was dead just about the day it dropped, how are these guys still going?

How does this shit still sound so fresh?

The lyrics are hitchy and hooky and flecked with politik, the structures are full of little surprises - you're always on your toes, this funky alien thing writhing around you and around you and in its own way its a damn fine dancer.

Also, I don't call out individual tracks very often, but goddamn Freedom '15's one of the banginest things I've heard in ages - the huge bass, the slinky verses, that euphoric chorus calling upon the best of Stax fuck-you songs, and then the cracking second half that snaps the whole thing 90 degrees, degree by degree till you're in a whole 'nother headspace. That bass.

This makes me want to be in an actual dancing club. I never go to dancing clubs. Cool rave song.

4.5/5

No comments:

Post a Comment