The result could be the theme song for a buddy-cop movie set in outer space. (It’s also littered with f-bombs, so proceed with caution.) Rather than hedging their bets by reverting to the straight-up sound of their signature hit, “ Soul Food,” they’ve decided to embrace their collective eccentricities instead. It is, after all, undeniably, proudly, admirably nonconformist.
It’s symptomatic of the it’s-been-10-seconds-and-I’m-already-bored era of music that your initial reaction to this reunion single - from the first Goodie Mob album in almost 15 years to feature CeeLo Green - might be irritation. It’s not quite Muse territory, but fans of that band’s predilection for sonic density should feel right at home here. While Birds of Tokyo deals in lush pop music, its predecessor, Karnivool, is considerably more belligerent. ( bit.ly/16vlwy2)Īn unknown here but a bona fide star in Australia, Ian Kenny has the distinction of fronting not one but two bands - the other is Birds of Tokyo - both of whom released albums this year, and both of which debuted at No. In the case of the old Foreigner hit, Luxxury - who made his name in the New York ad community and with software multinational Red Hat - takes the “so oh oh” snippet from the chorus, shoves the rhythm section out front, and ends up with an artfully fractured creation whose intermittent familiarity only serves to heighten its weirdness.
L.A.’s Baron Von Luxxury (Blake Robin, to his mom) specializes in isolating one seemingly inconsequential aspect of a song and rebuilding an entire track around it. As the makers of music videos have long known, people hear what they see, which means this preview of the next this-album-sounds-nothing-like-the-last-one release by MGMT appears to be a goofy pop song rather than what it sounds like if you listen to it with your eyes closed: 126 glorious seconds of what might be characterized as “avant-garage.” (From MGMT, out Sept.
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