Moss Aspect Sauna Membership: MY WEIRD APPETITE
(Steam Room)
DL/Streaming
Manchester newcomers Moss Aspect Sauna Membership launch the colourful new single MY WEIRD APPETITE. A vivid synth led observe, carried ahead by a palpable indie vitality, the observe is an ingenious, buoyant effort which captures business attraction and experimental undercurrent inside the band’s sound.
Bringing collectively parts of hyperpop and indietronica with a effectively positioned various undercurrent, the observe is as akin to POLIÇA as it’s to the likes of College Of Seven Bells. Opening with a putting fuzzy synth bass, the observe quickly introduces its driving dwell drums and gently processed lead vocals to create a pulsing, putting soundscape. Progressing to the refrain, the observe opens out with a spacious reverb which floats across the vocal.
As MY WEIRD APPETITE progresses, as does the glitchy nature of the manufacturing, as if it’s steadily changing into extra unhinged and unravelling, mirroring the playful nature of the lyricism. Bringing in an elegantly labored guitar line on the mid level, vocal cuts dance across the soundscape and the tracks creativity prospers, permitting effectively positioned samples to brighten the artistic sonic concepts, and in the end hammering house that this isn’t “pop” however one thing way more nuanced.
Made up of Will Brooks, Maddy Storm and Sam Craighan, Moss Aspect Sauna Membership themselves describe MSSC as “a three-piece band and we’ve recognized one another for years. We got here collectively to make an album in the course of the worst occasions of our lives as an alternative of going to remedy. The challenge got here as a warmth stroke induced fever dream as Sam desperately tried to really feel good once more in his native leisure centre. It’s been downhill ever since.” That quote would possibly sound bleak, however the band finds humour within the hell of all of it, turning despair into disarmingly catchy alternative-pop.
The observe itself was written, recorded and produced by MSSC at Steam Room Studios in Salford, combined by Maddy Storm and mastered by Pete Maher (Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Pixies). With a debut album on the way in which, the trio are already making noise on the dwell circuit, from their sold-out headline present at Manchester’s The Rat and Pigeon to a buzzy showcase for Discover Pleasure at The Previous Blue Final in London.
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