Wednesday, 2 January 2008Mechanical Bride - umbrella on Transgressive records Mechanical Bride A side only - Umbrella Transgressive records Quantity Pressed: 500 Release Date: 24/12/2007 Mechanical bride reconfirms that this is after all a good song. No...really, hear me out. My friend played it acoustic for me one day and before I could ask why it sounded so familiar, it hit me what he was playing at the umbrella part and it worked. It may have been born in some kind of song laboratory but there is something there even after everything is stripped away. It surprisingly is catchier, more listenable. Mechanical Bride hopes to breathe new life into this overplayed track which I'm sure has made as many 'worst of' as 'best of' lists. Lauren Doss, Abi Bailey, Tommy Heap, Marcus Hessenberg, Sam Pearson play an impressive variety of classical instruments, from violins to euphonium. Lauren's vocal style on the track lends itself to it's inherent melancholic sadness. It's right up front barely whispering at points or getting lost to layers of delay, it benefits from this intimacy. It's not a celebratory song...when the shit hits the fan, hopefully someone will still be there. It was contorted into a dance hit, but here the minimal glockenspiel and staccato strings plucked and brief provide the rhythm part of the track behind a dissonant piano riff, which I happily can't connect to the original. The chorus of course goes for the ella ella ella in swirling echo fashion. I guess if you have to go with that part, you might as well really give in and trust it will be more than just an ironic novelty. My only criticism is the choice to put this out as a one sided etched seven inch, it echoes tunng's etched 7" of bloc party's 'pioneer', why waste a perfectly good side of vinyl? Sure I like the occasional etching in my study but it's about the music, and I'd like to know more about this band than just a happy accident. Jason Dean Labels: classical, etched, mechanical bride, one sided, rihanna, transgressive records, tunng, umbrella
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