the first ep was insanely incredible - yellow magic orchestra and stock/aitken/waterman as remixed by luciano (vocals by frieda and agnetha), like shiina ringo raving with the pet shop boys at watergate. their next release is for cadenza and judging by their myspace the group have reverted to a minimal house template, like jorge gonzales's 2006 collab with fellow chilean dinky, but with like these AMAZING lyrics, sung in english forunately for us non spanish speakers (though i kinda dig that i can't understand the lyrics on the first ep, and the spanish tongue sounds sublime over these hyper-smooth disco-tech tracks, it makes it impossible to sing along to!) -- ya'll probably know '4wd' from the villalobos fabric mix, the og is much more fun. gonzales's english lyrics seem to be describing various night-life-in-the-city scenarios but in a plain conversational manner so as to avoid cliche - in 'its getting late for kicks' he questions his friend's ability to take another trip without going crazy, the kind of mundane observations one makes during that period of post-high mdma cynicism and boredom over a melancholic acoustic guitar melody and a jacking bass line that would make ricardo blush.
but the first ep is so so much better (though i may well change my mind once i get a real copy of the cadenza record), beautiful and romantic and positively soaked in huge day-glo pop hooks. i hope the group aren't done with this sound as it is so addictive, and beats the shit out of 99% of recent electro-pop. i just wish i could understand the lyrics. any other fans out there?
― r1o natsume, Thursday, 13 March 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)