Ditz – I Am Kate Moss
Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Idles, Peaches, Suuns, Eagulls, Unwound
What kind of music do bank robbers listen to just before putting on their gloves and black ski masks? In the movies, it’s always something tense. Something that reflects the strain that they must be feeling. It’s always music that acts as a war drum.
Reality is probably not quite as interesting. They might be listening to Cher as they dream of spending all that dough. Still, we can’t help but think of those living on the outer edges of society as both fascinating and on their way to perdition.
Ditz sound like that. On I Am Kate Moss they name-check one of Britain’s sex symbols, and murmur the words as if spoken by a twisted figure living underground, waiting to strike.
The song is likely a commentary on society. The smart and virtuous don’t get what they need and deserve. The Brits have a knack for ordinary, cider-soaked tragedies. Calamity aside, there’s no denying the song’s apex. It’s the sound of thousands of football hooligans charging the palace gates. Or, a regular Saturday night out in London.
Littlehawk – Sane Guy
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock
Most of today’s most brilliant artistic minds are on the outside. They like it that way. They celebrate their individuality with weirdness. And, they’re proud of the fact that their chances of reaching the attention of a wider audience are always slim. This, we’ve been shown through various examples, is what serious artists do.
Still, the opposite is even more terrifying and potent. Some artists get their opportunities of seeing what happens on the inside. They inject their crowd-pleasing work with perverse, almost maniacal glee. These are the ones that, for better or for worse, end up changing things.
Littlehawk’s Sane Guy is one of those songs. It’s a song that feels created by an AI determined to take a Nine Inch Nails tune and turn it into a pop tune while retaining all of its anger and twisted logic. Here’s the likely contagion, and the work of Littlehawk, a very clever recording artist.
