Modern Diet - “Trouble”
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Modern Diet, from Brooklyn, USA, debuts on our site with the woozy pop gem of a new single “Trouble.”
“Trouble” isn’t a track that merely arrives; instead, it seems to spill out in a gracefully chaotic display of a sun-faded, 1970s daydream. It is playful, indie pop rock at its very best. It sounds like an obsessively stitched together studio curiosity that captures the slacker drift of Mac DeMarco, eccentricity of Beck, melody of early solo Paul McCartney, and the wooziness of The Beach Boys’ Smiley Smile.
The composition is founded on what can only be described as a patchwork of rhythms that shuffle, flicker and snap around the buoyant percussive beat and bass. It has grimy analogue warmth, daydream looseness, yet remains delightfully tight. But the standout is the sublime guitars that tie the arrangement together. They channel the expressive, skyward melodicism of Mick Ronson and the off-kilter bite of Graham Coxon.
Everywhere you turn, there is some new sound coming into view: glitchy artifacts, woozy mellotron, ghostly backing vocals, or matches being lit. It is an intriguing, disjointed sound that mesmerises and lingers. The detached vocal runs through the layers with a dry, conversational tone. It elegantly frames the performance with a scruffy and slightly whimsical sense, whilst nailing all the melodicism and unexpected lifts needed to make “Trouble” a great track.
Lyrically, “Trouble” is a “meditation on the sex appeal of self-destruction and the cosmic pull toward the unsustainable.” Charming, beautifully strange and 100% an ear worm, the new single “Trouble” is taken from the forthcoming record Cloud Breaker, out May 1st via Paper Moon Records. Connect with Modern Diet: Spotify | Soundcloud | Bandcamp | Instagram
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