Although often immersed in a more cinematic, wide-screen, dream-pop sound, this latest one, from Korda Korder, ‘Edge of the World’, is a song whose beauty is found in simpler musicality, as if they have largely cleared away the synth washes and chiming guitars that are often draped elegantly over their music, the song now getting to the very essence of what always lay under it.
Simple acoustic rhythms and intermittent drums create a poised, gently propulsive energy; basses are textural rather than melodic; electric motifs hover at the edge of the song; pianos chime in the distance; and the usual soundscaping is replaced with space and atmosphere.
So, it might not be dream-pop in the purely generic sense, but when have genres done anything other than get in the way? It’s dreamy, it’s pop-aware…let’s leave it at that; something this graceful, this emotive, this gorgeous doesn’t need to weigh itself down with such journalistic tat.
What you can’t do, however, is limit the song to a single spin. For all its delicacy, it offers rich rewards, with new sounds revealed on each play until you realise its sound comes not from sonic weight but from the kaleidoscopic effect of light shining through layers of musical colour, shifting and realigning to create different shimmering hues as required.
‘Edge of the World’ might be the band’s most understated single to date, but it is also, and this is no slight on any of their more robust songs (though the word robust is obviously relative), their most striking creation.
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