In the case of her fantastic follow-up single "L.E.S. However, the upside to being saddled with that recurring reference point is that it freed her up to mine other sources with less critical scrutiny. comparisons that could potentially dominate all discussion of her work from here on out. With a synth-freaked production from Switch and echo-drenched patois, Santi White had to know her debut single, "Creator", would unleash a deluge of M.I.A. Gangly guy gets most of the attention, but bassist Josh Fauver, guitarist Lockett Pundt, and co-founder/drummer Moses Archuleta (now joined live by guitarist Whitney Petty) are all co-equals on this one hell, Fauver wrote most of it. After the huge chorus hits twice in the first two minutes, the next three-plus promise a third chorus so convincingly you probably won't mind when it never, um, happens- "Waiting for something, for nothing," Bradford Cox observes pointedly. Big dumb hooks! Guitar solos! Finger-tapping! It's the Deerhunter song you play for people who don't think they like Deerhunter. But the delay pedals and gloomy noise-murk are gone, replaced with festival-ready crowd-pleasers. All the usual Deerhunter signatures are there: Neu!-like propulsion, Sonic Youth-style iridescence, airy vocals, lyrics about dreaming. After Cryptograms' exquisite perversity, first Microcastle single "Nothing Ever Happened" was like the moment in the film A Hard Day's Night where the Beatles finally escape into the sun. Marc Hoganĭelayed gratification, meet instant pleasure. The results are as warm and transportive as the new West Coast sound of Gothenburg neighbors Studio, but also as catchy and wistfully innocent as the punk-minded pop of Sincerely Yours chiefs the Tough Alliance. On "Collapsing at Your Doorstep", from this year's No Way Down EP, the Swedish duo create a fantasy island out of bird chirps, tropical percussion, strings, a little kid's voice (also sampled this year by should-be-beloved dubstep producer Zomby), and two other little kids' voices (from the 1980s TV show "Beauty and the Beast"). Air France threw a "Beach Party" on last year's #89 track, quoting Lisa Stansfield's "All Around the World".
"If you have anything in you, anything unique, what others might term as originality, it will come through whatever the component parts used in your future Number One are made up from," the KLF write in The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way.
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