Having secured places at this years Glastonbury, Wireless Festival and a slot supporting The Chemical Brothers at Hyde Park, these avant-garde rockers from the New York City have a lot to look forward to. The three-piece have also this week released their second album Gloss Drop and with it comes their single Futura.
Futura stretches its claims to any specific genre and tests your ears with atonal notes, offbeat breaks and cavernous reverb. It finds an initial groove that could easily have been penned by Muse's Matt Bellamy, but then takes an almost sinister turn when guitarist Ian Williams releases the eerie Adams Family-esque organ sounds from his guitar. The similarities to other bands then stop there too.
As an instrumental track you may find yourself willing it to have vocals, but you'll have to listen to the rest of the album to hear vocals from front man Dave Konopka. Futura will suffer the Marmite dilemma, but if you can hang on throughout the seven and a half minutes to persuade your musical taste buds then the song will definitely instill curiosity about the rest of the album - which holds a lot of promise.
Words: Adrian Burgess
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10:15 AM | 10/06/2011
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