Sub Focus - 'Could This Be Real'
In the spirit of honesty, I have to explain, even if you're reading this late on a Wednesday night, that I'm writing it on a Friday. It's important to listen to records like this on a Friday, because they play with the feelings of freedom, excitement and release that tend to come at the end of a busy week. If you have the kind of life schedule which unleashes weekend endorphins at 10:30 on a Tuesday morning, it'd be an idea to save clicking on the video link until then, just to make the most of the situation.
It's a good Friday (although not actually Good Friday, obv, that's in April). The rain has stopped, the sun is out and there's a definite feeling that good things are on the way. So much so that I'm reluctant to turn Sub Focus off, in case it turns out that this is the musical equivalent of rose-tinted glasses. I mean it is also a bit chilly, and really, when you come to think about it, days of the week are just a frail human construct, an arbitrary, meaningless structure we developed to give our lives some form of shape in a random, chaotic existan...
...hang on, it stopped. Lemme start it again and I'll be right with you.
(. It features a man with a robot box on his head.)
Phew! That's better. So, I guess the thing to say is that this is pure Friday optimism in music form. It's got funny bumquake bass, sounding less like an arrangement of sound frequencies and more like an enormous squitty lump of near-solid jelly attempting to take a giant bite out of itself and then swish that bite through its teeth.
It's got a glassy, stuttery vocal sample flying around, but a proper singing bit too, so it feels like a song and a remix at the same time. And the kind of pounding piano that always brings to mind the word 'euphoric', even though that's probably a clearly-defined genre in dance music that I've got wrong.
AND there's a breakdown section which is part church organ playing 'Thriller' and part bleepy electronic metronome shouting at itself in a cave. All of these things are welcome on a Friday. Just don't try them on a Sunday teatime, or it'll all feel a bit strange.
Download: Out now
CD Released: January 18th
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(Fraser McAlpine)
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