Wow, what a breath of fresh air Mari Dangerfield is. It’s like someone finally remembered how to make pop music again. Not just pop music but pop music for the modern age. For too long now, pop seems to have been beholden to a particular template, a mathematical formula that assigns numbers to things like dance routines, guest rappers, auto-tune tricks, whiffs, or, more accurately, whole mushroom clouds of nostalgia. Fit enough of those into your song, and you have a sure-fire chart winner… albeit one that sounds like the last 14 sure-fire chart winners.
And that is why “Love Machine” is so great. It sounds like music made for all the right reasons, i.e. to be innovative, creative, and expressive, and it feels like music made not just for the here and now but the music made to lead us into a bright new pop future.
It’s cool and slightly quirky. Light yet lush. It lights along with fun bursts of energy; it feels as if built of gossamer digital sounds yet uses those to create a wonderful ebb and flow of dynamics. Best of all, it sounds like a whole new chapter for pop music.
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