“Kiss Me Quick” is one of those songs woven out of so many scintillating sonic textures and so many smooth and serene sounds that it is difficult to know where to start. Part dream pop mellifluousness, part alt-rock energy, part lysergic folktronica, it is a song with one foot in the understated end of a dance-pop groove and the other in more cinematic realms.
The coming together of these opposites makes it such an attractive proposition – the balance of digital delicacy and analog deftness, of shimmering tones and more powerful rock energies, of pop accessibility, and more alternative soundscaping.
I grew up in a more tribal age, an age where people followed music styles like cults; for me, the post-genre age, an era when people forgot about the rules and wilfully crossed demarcations, a time when people could make music this genre-hopping, a time of change and reinvention, couldn’t come quickly enough.
Lexytron is a revelation, and the charm of “Kiss Me Quick” is that we can see them (Lexy and Mike, if you must know) undertaking the constructive process of wandering far and wide, magpie-like, across the musical map to find all those sonic shiny things, those inspirations, and influences, sounds, and styles to build their own unique musical nest out of.
It’s a gorgeous, graceful, and genuinely great song.
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