Best New Tracks - Pitchfork: Movement: "Like Lust" |  |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:38 PM PST
If you think "post-rock" is a phrase that's meant to have some kind of literal interpretation, Movement are the sort of band it applies to: they're still a band, one with distinct roles and reliant on rhythmic interplay, but completely removed from the strictures of verse/chorus and the power trio setup of guitar/bass/drums. The Sydney trio have already toured with Solange and Darkside, and somewhere between those two acts, you'll find "Like Lust": it's not R&B, it's not electronic, it's not pop, it's certainly not "rock", but it is strangely psychedelic and very much body music. As with previous single, "Us", "Like Lust" gets physical with a sinuous groove that remains just taut enough, as milky keys and properly loud, echoing drums supporting a half-heard line: "When it feels like lust."
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Millie & Andrea: "Corrosive"
Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PST
"Corrosive" heralds Drop the Vowels, the oncoming album from Andy Stott and Demdike Stare member Miles Whitaker's Millie & Andrea project. It arrives on the heels of the surprisingly trap-y aperitif "Stage 2", darkening that track's palate and offering up a Frankenstein monster of tittering trap hi-hats and drum'n'bass breaks. The track simmers in a dark ambience, with rays of prickling synthesizer peeking out between storms of rhythm. "Corrosive"'s vital, thick humidity portends the downpours, as heavy as they are sudden. The track's structure—which moves from a careful stir to frenetic assault and back again—is confusing at first, but ultimately serves as the track's engine, whipping between extremes but stopping short of building to any kind of easy climax. It's an arresting piece, one that pays lip service to genre conventions—both old and new—just to show how thoroughly those conventions are going to be trampled.
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