Matthew Dear - Black City
Tonight was a catch-up-on-music night. Run through all the blogs, check some relevant labels, read through reddit’s listentothis and music subreddits, download anything that sounds interesting. And oh my god did I find something interesting.
Black City has floored in a rare way; the sort of album that I immediately like and with each new track, I find myself laughing at how goddam cool it is. The album is dark. Like, seriously dark. It sounds like if Justice or The Knife remixing the brooding Side B of Talking Heads’ Remain in Light. Perhaps a bit too much like Remain in Light — it’s not just hints I’m hearing of “Listening Wind,” “The Overlord,” or “Houses in Motion,” it sounds like he’s outright quoting them (and that’s a-ok with me). Just… more danceable and fun.
Totally one of my favorite albums of the year so far. You know where to grab it.
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Awesome, I read some things about this but had trouble finding it.
Oh and I reuploaded that Shangaan Electro compilation.
I knew within 14 seconds of the first track that I would enjoy this. Looking forward to the rest.
Big Bill said:I knew within 14 seconds of the first track that I would enjoy this. Looking forward to the rest.
Right?! I was just kinda skipping through album after album after album and, just like you said, seconds into this one I was totally on board.
Favorite track at the moment is definitely “You Put a Smell On Me” — it almost sounds like something we’d have heard at Shampoo on wednesdays (goth night), but not as silly.
I was doing some Illustrator practice while listening, but that track, “You Put A Smell On Me” caught my ear, as did the next track. I like the percussion sounds he went with.