Big Softy – Support Song
Similar artists: Underworld, LCD Soundsystem
Playing music and doing magic tricks both prize the art of misdirecting. It must be a great job. Fool as many people as you can, and they will love you for it. Make them believe in things aren’t really there. Make them think that the things that are there are something else, and you are bound to be rewarded.
Ever since the 1960s, Western pop music has tried to sneak one in past the censors. It’s the reason why many of the world’s most famous songs are rumored to be about something else than you’d expect. By the way, did you know that Paul McCartney died in 1967 and that Led Zeppelin sold their souls to the devil? Shocking stuff!
Big Softy play with the art of the misdirect on Support Song, essentially offering up a dance tune about one’s terrible mental decline. Listen closely, or you’ll miss it while you’re persuaded by the song’s electro beats to shake, rattle and drool. Big Softy has come up with a clever, coded disco cry for help.
Happy Hollows – Prowler
Genre: New wave, Indietronica
Similar artists: The Sugarcubes, Future Islands, Kate Bush, Jane Weaver
For the most part, picking out songs for your musical selection is a lot like choosing dishes from a restaurant menu. You know what to expect. When the waiter serves your food, it generally comes with the taste, the smell, and the color that you would picture it would have. If it does not, you express your shock, and, likely your disgust. Besides all the fuss, the waiter will most likely agree to change your order.
Music is as safe as ordering breakfast at an international restaurant. Or, at least, it usually works in that way. Pop music sits in its lane, rock has its own trajectory, and so on. Most people wouldn’t want pineapple juice mixed in with their coffee. But, some just can’t help themselves. What do you call these people?
They are either explorers or madmen, depending on how you choose to view the dilemma. Happy Hollows’ Prowler reveals a bit of both those tendencies. Their brand of quirky, deeply psychedelic dance music is the aforementioned pineapple juice dropped in the coffee mug. It’s not something that anyone demanded. And, perhaps, precisely because of this it is amazingly interesting to witness it. Happy Hollows throughout the song sound as if they know their strengths and weaknesses and are determined to ignore both in their blind, but exciting dance exploration.
