The Glitch Mob Reconnect With Early Rave Influences On Fourth Album, "CTRL ALT REALITY"
With their fourth studio album, CTRL ALT REALITY, The Glitch Mob are resetting expectations.
The tenured digital trio have all the time been very deliberate with their artistic output. So once they returned with the announcement of their first album since 2018’s See With out Eyes, there was a right away curiosity in how their newest chapter would unfold.
The band spurred much more intrigue once they provided up a fairly conceptual artistic thesis. “This subsequent chapter in our artistry is meant to get again to the music, the motion, the dance, the connection of physique & sound,” the group tweeted in September. “We’re right here to offer an audio expertise you’re feeling deep in your soul.”
As with their prior long-form initiatives, it is obvious that the group have been clear-eyed in formulating a cohesive imaginative and prescient for CTRL ALT REALITY. Notably, nevertheless, it is an album based mostly round a ardour for the cultural roots of dance music, and never essentially the clean-cut feeling of calculated synchronicity which served because the spine of their previous few albums.
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With effervescent vocal chops and cascading, arpeggiated synths rolling atop of the monitor’s breakbeat drums, the opener “All The Folks” evokes emotions of managed chaos which stay comparatively fixed all through the document. The invigorating tempo continues all through the primary act onto tracks like “Antireal,” which reintroduces the satisfyingly acquainted sound of The Glitch Mob’s signature, biting distortion into the combination.
There is a slight change of tempo halfway with “The Second,” a refreshing spin on old-school, piano-driven melodies that harken again to the heyday of the underground rave scenes in Chicago and Detroit. For the nearer, “Greater,” The Glitch Mob empty the tank with an exhilarating coda pushed by stabbing rave chords and playfully pitched vocal chops.
Whereas The Glitch Mob are leaning right into a dramatic change of tempo with their newest album, followers are more likely to admire the group’s sharp instincts and timeless capability to weave cutting-edge instrumental tapestries that can by no means be replicated. Take a hearken to the album under and stream it here.
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