CORP$EY
no mickey mouse ting
'The percussion is dry and restless and the bassline is shark-like, while the background atmosphere swirls hypnotically.
Shark-like?
"Radiant" slams harder, but the intensity is leavened by chords that bounce sweetly through the track's cavernous spaces, sending up dust clouds of reverb behind them.
An interesting thing is to note how writers (myself included) tend to write physically about music as if the music itself is a physical structure (and not just in the sense of the sound of a kick drum and a synth). Writing about music becomes not dancing about but writing about architecture.
Here's an example of me doing something like that:
From its outset, Slow Knife beams us back into the familiar Kuedo cosmos, with gorgeous synths, drifting like nebulae alongside those fluttering hi-hats.
Disappointed with myself reading this - the nebulae is excusable and perhaps evocative, but the 'fluttering' hi-hats don't fit metaphorically. It makes you think of birds, not stars.
And 'alongside', too - structural, and inaccurately, limply so. Should have been (if it had to be) 'drifting below/above/amidst'... D'OH
FINALLY: I hope it was my editor and not me that put in that superfluous comma.
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