I find the EDM craze to be kind of interesting because it seems to be the exact opposite – well, at least the opposite of clean, maybe not of simple and boring. There have always been exceptions – David Bowie is a good one – but in this decade, at least, Clean, Simple, and Boring seems to be what the public really embraces.
In fact it’s rather cool, and extremely welcome in a world that’s drowned in auto-tune, whose popular vocalists generally piss me off because they seem to have been stripped of all originality by the big companies or maybe just by society, who seem to really like a certain kind of sound – which is, it appears, a rather clean, uninteresting sound, like for instance the notes that spring from Mariah Carey or the newest popular teen idol. And as I continue to listen to it, I still think it is, but it becomes less and less of a problem each time I hear it. When I heard Stolen Dance for the first time, it was on Much – the Canadian equivalent of MTV – and I didn’t like it because the verse seemed vaguely off-key. As stated above, he usually has his head in the sandbox behind his house entitled ‘Obscure Music of the 2000s.’ But I couldn’t resist climbing out of my comforting world of Aesop Rock and Neutral Milk Hotel to take a look at this song – so enough exposition, Jesus Christ! Let’s get to the thing. So, does the loner behind this blog that nobody reads usually listen to popular music? No. Doesn’t he only look at indie stuff?Ībandoning all pretense that I’m a stuck-up hipster who only listens to super-obscure Aesop Rock songs from the early 2000s, let’s dive in and take a look at a very curious little quirk-of-a-hit, Stolen Dance by the Man With Great Hair, apparently known officially as “Milky Chance.” I will never refer to him as such, however, because since seeing the video all I can think is Great Hair. The group has gone platinum before, whos to say they could not do it again.(Psst. By stepping out of their musical comfort zone, certain tracks on Mind the Moon deserve a second play. Though by comparison, Mind the Moon isn’t Milky Chance’s most daring feat to date, it does give their listeners a taste of what could be to come in the future. With lyrics like, “Thoughts are passing by outside my window/ thinking of the moments with you/ dreaming ‘bout the things we missed to do,” one could assume the song is centered around a lost love or an internal conflict of some sort. The album ends with the track “Window.” The track, again, sounds like what would be considered classic Milky Chance vibes.
“The Game,” though catchy and filled with reggae influences, could be mistaken for any alternative hit from the early 2000s. Aside from tracks like “Daydreaming” featuring Australian singer Tash Sultana and “Eden’s House” featuring South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the album blends together where you can’t hear when one song ends and another brings. The chorus rings as “This is Fado” is repeated over a hauntingly meta beat. “Fado” meaning, “Portuguese folk song typically of doleful or fatalistic character and usually accompanied on the guitar,” is exactly what the boys express on the opener of the album. The 12-track album starts with “Fado,” a track that takes musical influences from all over the globe.
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