How can a song be both a perfect echo of the past and yet a wonderfully forward-thinking piece of sublime music? I guess if we knew the answer to that, we would all be making music as decisive and delicious and delicate, and drop-dead gorgeous as “Everything You Ever Wanted To Be.”
The past in question is specifically the high-water mark of cinematic music, that late-eighties collision point of dream-pop’s magical sheen and shoegaze’s sonic walls of beautiful noise. But that only captures part of what is going on here, and for every familiar refrain and recognizable step, there are twice as many fresh, exploratory sonic brushstrokes. This is that scintillating scene remade for today’s audience.
Here, Korda Korder delivers a master class in how you can take such all-encompassing walls of noise, such big guitars, such a seering sonic blanket, and turn them into something angelic, ethereal, and crystalline. This is the shoegaze ethic turned into the mesmerizing and magical, the dreampop vibe writ large and lovely…and loud!
Perhaps what makes things even more beguiling are the vocals. Often, with such music, they are pushed down, half-hidden, voice as instrument, but here, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, in years to come, when the band has made it big, which is just a matter of time, trust me, this will be one of those songs that the influencers and gatekeepes, tastemakers and self-promoters of the internet will be going giddy over when someone isolates the voice from the music, and everyone bangs on about how the benchmarks for music used to be much much higher.
Still, by then those of us who know a good thing when we hear it, as we have, will be able to say, “Oh man, why did it take you all this time to catch on.”
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