Music To My Ears – Champagne Riot
Here’s a treat for a Friday evening: a tasty little EP of Danish indie electro-pop. There’s a ton of New Order here, but you get the sense that it’s not an homage to the 80s per se, as much as it’s a re-living of the experience in a new era.
That is to say: in the 80s synths were new, trendy, futuristic. In contrast, to listen to Champagne Riot is to hear what it sounds like on the other side of the looking glass. The world where this sort of music isn’t bursting onto the scene – all garish and in-your-face – but has simply always been around forever. It’s the stripped-down sound of a new millennium, one that grew up in a world where this sound was already passe.
The magic of 2009 is that this type of music, that was originally supposed to sound like the future, and which quickly became incredibly dated and retro, is now neither. Instead it’s just the sound of home. And it makes you wonder what it would be like to hear this if you hadn’t grown up in the midst of a synth-bubble.
The Paris and I EP is available from Shelflife – who as far as I can tell pretty much exclusively signs good bands.