If, like me, you feel that mainstream music is all a bit safe, merely appealing to fads and fashions, comfort zones and marketing reports, if you are constantly trying to find those strange little alternate worlds that grow in the cracks (pun intended), then this is for you.
Brighton’s En Heat, something of a south-coast, supergroup, although perhaps opposed to everything that such a term suggests, being on Blang Records makes for the perfect musical marriage. Theirs is a world of under-the-counter culture (I don’t know what that means, but it sounds appropriate) vibes, alternative sonic choices, and surreal lyricism; the label is the perfect champion and subversive lunch vehicle for such much-needed strangeness in a world that has forgotten to take itself less seriously.
If the previous single, “AntiStar,” was an unexpected blend of the offbeat and the soulful, this time out, things head in a more indie-guitar-band direction, but, of course, you can’t read too much into such a description. The bass seems to be doing much of the heavy lifting, allowing the guitar to deftly flit around the outer reaches, the vocals are increasingly manic, the lead breaks a mix of carnival groove and trippy psychedelia, and the chorus is so infectious that it will take up permanent residence in your temporal lobe and groove around your hippocampus at all hours of the day and night.
And lyrically, we find them in their element, exploring ever more surreal prose, like a modern Edward Lear, mixing nuance with nonsense, poetics with flights of fancy, narration with stoned streams of semi-consciousness. Flippin’ marvelous.
So, what is it all about? Who knows? Who cares? Treat the song like an ancient mantra and just meditate and wallow in its possibilities, and you may just find enlightenment. Failing that, something to throw a few crazy shapes on the dance floor too…either is enough in these dull and dark times.
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