Next Life - Electronic Violence
Also on Cock Rock Disco is Next Life, who sound like if Zombi and Fantomas got together to score Zelda. With this Norwegian duo, you get the cinematic synths of the former and the ADD of the latter. Songs burst into bloom with proggy odd meters and power chords, only to jump cut to the crystalline notes of the mushroom princess giving you advice.
Video game music doesn’t get much better than this. The synth work on Electronic Violence is gloriously ’80s, full of pure, relatively uneffected tones. In lesser hands, these would sound cheap, but these guys have the video game vibe down cold. Even the song titles are thusly suggestive: “Under Water,” “Blue Stone, “Red Stone,” “Transparent Stone.” “Video game music” might seem like a diss, but I mean it as high praise. All these guys need now is a drummer. Seeing one keyboardist and one guitarist live is kind of “press play” for me. Maybe it’s tough to find a drummer to play 8-bit rhythms.
Next Life – The MirrorNext Life – Vanished
Pick this up on CD at Cargo or as a download at Cock Rock Disco.
