The Shape of Brat Pop To Come

Apple WatchのCM曲「Running Behind」で一躍大注目を浴びるLA在住の男女デュオ、ホーリーチャイルドがデビューアルバムをリリース!!ビルボードの「2014年に見るべき14アーティスト」にも選出され、フェニックスやマムフォード&サンズ等が所属するUSの名門レーベル、＜Glassnote＞が猛プッシュする期待の新人!

Borrowing from the title of free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's maverick 1959 classic The Shape of Jazz to Come, Los Angeles-based Holychild's full-length debut, 2015's The Shape of Brat Pop to Come, is an equally maverick, if considerably less jazz-oriented comment on the state of music in the 21st century. Centered around the duo of vocalist Liz Nistico and multi-instrumentalist Louie Diller, Holychild make bombastic, often campy electronic pop. Combining the punk-informed energy of similarly inclined duos like Sleigh Bells and Ting Tings with the snotty, hip-hop-informed, electro-clash posturing of Ke$ha, Holychild hit the sweet spot where mainstream hooks and wry, left-field humor intersect. Along with memorable hooks, Holychild also have eclectic musical tastes, drawing from such disparate if amenable genres as dancehall, old-school R&B, EDM, '90s soul, and '80s new wave. To these ends, cuts like the lead-off "Barbie Nation" and the winking "Nasty Girls" are addictive pop pills coated in sugary irony that work in a duplicitous fashion as both frothy commercial product and dark, literate commentary. On "Barbie Nation," Diller coos "life" lessons to her future daughter set against gigantic synth "bwaws." She sings, "I know you and me can make it far/'Cuz the Brat from Barbie Nation, we know pure elation." Of course, all of this snarky witticism wouldn't be as palatable were it not for the duo's knack for crafting engaging songs. Ultimately, cuts like rhythmically militaristic "Running Behind" and the equally percussive "Plastered Smile," as with most all of The Shape of Brat Pop to Come, prove to be infectious numbers that marry hummable Jackson 5 hooks with the rhyming energy of schoolyard jump rope songs. ~ Matt Collar

Apple WatchのTVCM効果もあり、インディー・シーンを飛び越えて一気にスターダムを駆け上がろうとしているLA在住の2人組。この処女作はダンスホール・レゲエやアフロ・キューバンっぽい味付けも交えた、グリッチーなポップ・チューンで構成されています。チャーリーXCXにリリー・アレン、もしくは同じ男女デュオ編成のカーミンを日光にさらした感じというか、下世話な楽しさが前に出ている点が◎!
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