Kool Thing - TV Tower
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| Kool Thing - TV Tower |
Release Date: 13th May 2013
With a name like Kool Thing you really don't need me to tell
you that this duo is based in Berlin and make synth based music with a twist.
Jon Dark and Julie Chance met in a dive bar in Paris (of course, where else?)
and started to make sweet, sticky, dark and unsettling music together. 'TV
Tower' has a futuristic, post-apocalyptic feel to it but there is a mood of
defiance and hope that runs through the music in a way that Muse and Arcade Fire
have perfected. Stabbing guitars, droned vocal harmonies and relentless strings
all layer up on top of an electronic landscape to create an irresistible world
that could be equally at home in the 1980s as it would be in 2080. There are
elements of Depeche Mode's darkness, a touch of Above & Beyond's
electro-intelligence and a funky but uneasy groove that only continental dance
acts seem able to find (see Goose for an example). I could very easily see this
duo becoming in demand producers in the future, working with everyone from
Foals and the Maccabees through to Bowie and, go with me on this, Tom Jones.
Seriously. He's gonna do a darkwave album soon when the bitterness of having to
spend every Saturday night with Will.I.Am. finally breaks him.
More information: www.koolthingmusic.com