Featuring Kanye Wests and FKA twigs producer, ominous industrial noise and Skrillex and Diplos disappointingly derivative collaboration
Collaborations in stadium dance dont get much bigger: Skrillex, the punk doyen of angular neon noise, and Diplo, the hipster in love with Jamaica, now conjoined as Jack U. This could potentially be amazing imagine Diplos slobbering syncopation tricked out by Skrillexs deranged sound design but instead its outright derivative. Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, AKA TNGHT, must be laughing at the gall their track Higher Ground is ripped off wholesale, from the high-pitched vocal to the juke-paced snare, the half-speed drop to HudMos dog-growl FX. Mimicking a two-year-old track isnt a strong look for a couple of producers feted for their zeitgeist chiselling. Kiesza, meanwhile, makes a good stab at a diva top line, but inevitably her breakdown isnt there to serve the track, but just create a bland alternative. Of course, Diplo has never made smooth grooves, and all the better for it, but everything from his mixes of favela rap and bassline house to his Major Lazer and M.I.A. production nevertheless had a through line to them. This, on the other hand, is prefab panels of voguish production, with laziness masquerading as puppyish energy.
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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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