Somewhere between Ladytron and OMD sits this track from Brandy Kills. Brandy Kills is based from the Novosibirsk region of Russia, which would explains the cool factor on this track. What sudeced me was the unintelligible lyrics sung with a truly addictive melody.
Back again with another excellent track from Black Light Dinner Party (BLDP). If you dig Miike Snow, then this group is highly recommended. If you missed my previous post on them, you can read/hear it here. Vocals and production just suck me in and I get lost the melancholy of it all. To borrow a cliched term from baseball, these guys are batting a thousand.
Black Light Dinner Party’s second release Small Boxes highlights the foundation of their sound – thick, off-kilter beats, saturated basslines and vintage electronics paired with glowing harmonics, breathing vocals and elegant, heartfelt arrangements. The first piece of music since their debut single, ‘Older Together’, which hit #3 on hypemachine in it’s first week, Small Boxes continues the BLDP tradition – LA beats rolling along with bohemian ease, New York synths on a frosted Sunday morning and Lush Parisian melodies, always with a taste for the bittersweet.
NME Magazine
The Buzz – “This mystery project is comprised of four anonymous producers, and their immaculate first offering…certainly sounds like they know their way around a mixing desk.”
Prefix
“…You might not be prepared for what they have done here with Black Light Dinner Party‘s catchy-as-all-hell “Older Together….”
In “Erase”, you can hear the Depeche Mode and 80’s synth pop influences but there’s more too this track than just that. Revolution 9 incorporates more modern dance pop aesthetics in “Erase” and in doing so elevates their sound to something quite special.