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Groupshow “The Future Looks Bright…Super Bright”

Groupshow’s compositions are totally zonked out, but at the same time, they are rather playful and imply a physicality that can be lacking in a lot of avant garde electronic music. I’m particularly fond of the way they can make very cartoonish sounds seem so mellow and pretty — few people can make a “boing!” noise come across as somewhat ethereal, but they pull it off. The (seemingly?) live percussion in this track is an inspired touch, making the entire track feel loose and jammed out, even if that is probably not the case.

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Peaches “Lose You”

This song just barely sounds like the Peaches we’ve all come to know over the course of this decade, but in the context of her new album it makes perfect sense, especially after the bolder but no less vulnerable and sincere “Talk To Me.” This is the “mature” Peaches — still bawdy and button-pushing, but willing to reveal herself as fragile now and then to great effect. For more thoughts on I Feel Cream, my review of the album is up on Pitchfork today.

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