Bringing scuzz and self-remix to the best lessons of 'Fear of Music', the new single is an original and fierce blur of expressionism.
Photo: Jake Ollett | Words: Lloyd Bolton
The Late Joe Bowman's new single 'We're Too Careless' is a suitably visceral recording from a fierce new presence on London's live scene. Though his shows are defined by the squeals and skitters of a laptop track, this recording opens in a relatively controlled manner, evocative of post-punk industrialism and with distinctly 'Fear of Music' vocals. There is much more to come, however, than doing David Byrne dance moves in the mirror.
Synth bursts suggest nightmarish club flashbacks as they emerge into prominence, eventually clashing directly with the 1978 basssline in a fantastic moment of synthesis, Bowman's "falalalalalalala" surely on some level a reference Talking Heads' famous "fa-fa-fa-fa". From here, however, the post-punk similarity dies as the song is overrun with orchestrated disorder. The vocals shift into a more aggressive shout, noisy feedback spools across beats and synths bloop as the song is mashed through a spiky filter. As the music disintegrates into a brutal, thumping mass, the emotion coheres, leaking a sense of concrete disgust and total alienation. The result brings the hyperpop capacity for intra-song remix crashing down into a lo-fi scuzz that feels liberatingly horrible and excitingly original.
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