Steph Copeland – What Sleep
Genre: Alternative Rock
Everyone seems to want to go on a fantastic journey, but nobody has the time. This is expressed in plenty of ways, especially in the way that modern audiences take on new music. They all expect it to do a lot in the shortest amount of time possible.
Naturally, the engineers at Tik Tok and Instagram have noted our tendency toward microscopic attention spans and have pounced. Bands now no longer make choruses, they make 15 seconds hooks designed to go viral.
This is all well and good, but on how many journeys can you expect to go in 15 seconds? Sure, there is always the thing that jam bands and techno offer. But we all know where journeys usually end up. Being sick in someone’s bathroom.
Steph Copeland looks back at alternative rock and takes it seriously on What Sleep, sticking genres together, going from the softest to the hardest songs in seconds, and nearly bending time and space in the process. It’s a ride, and you have to get on it. And, unless you don’t wish to break your neck, you are advised to stay on for the two-and-a-half minute duration. Neat!
M(h)aol – Period Sex
Genre: Indie rock, Post-punk
D’you want to make lots of money? Here’s what you do. You have to find either something that the world really loves or something of which they’re madly frightened. Then, you have to figure out how to give it to them.
Sounds simple, right? But the window of opportunity is shrinking every day. People don’t have much to love despite, or perhaps as a result, all their everyday luxuries. Do you think Louis the XIV ever Zoomed with his subjects?
On the other hand, there ain’t much left to shock the world either. The buttons have been pushed time and time again. Especially not in music. Elvis and black metal both get movies made about them which get shown on late-evening television.
M(h)aol is on a quest to find the last taboo, and they think that they’ve found a winner with Period Sex. Not shocked? Well, you’re likely not from Ireland. What the song does do very successfully is sound nearly like a tune by The Pop Group, tense and demented, a mad celebration of the things folks don’t want to talk about.
