Woody Fuller does write for rock nyc any longer but he remains a good friend and I saw him when he passed through the city on the way to Argentina and mentioned that a band he wrote about in 2010 for us, Bassnectar, had the best EDM record four years later.
Earlier this year I reviewed the show at MSG (here) and wrote “Bassnectar breaks his songs into aphorisms, one liners, “hit the ground”, “I can be a freak every day every week”, “wild style method”, “bazooka bass so heavy”. The latter off the evening’s best moment, a terrific “Lost In The Crowd” so melodic it sounds like Trance.” And what is odd because coming back for another listen, it sounds even more like trance, it is like a multi-tracked sink of melodic unctuousness, a team favorite and certainly better than both Guetta and Harris’s new albums, Noise Vs Beauty errs on the side of beauty, even the noisy ones. I’ll take Rye Rye and I’ll take W. Darling.
The album is not the MOR sound of Avicii pop, there is no “Wake Me Up” here, it is the sound of dubstep and house, heavy sampled and sometimes merging into song, with complex samples, and even more complex beats and voices which seem to move in and out.
At nearly an hour the album has a few cliffs and sometimes it falls off but it always land somewhere cool, it is like a computer game with the sound different levels and the tracks seem to repeat till they are right on the edge and then fall. But we told you that years ago.
