I only learned about Machine Girl’s music recently, and I’m surprised it took so long with much their style is up my alley. Their more recent releases have been verging into the experimental side of EDM, mixing some pretty layered ideas with spoken vocals in in a way that still manages to be as catchy as a pop song.
Black Glass is an especially chaotic track, with its busy synth layering and high tempo matched to a trippy 7/4 time signature. It’s disorienting, yet there’s enough intentionality here to make it feel right in place with the song’s theme and effect. I’m a big fan of both the style of the lyrics and their delivery – with its verbose and foreboding suggestions, a not-so-bleak backdrop of an artificial future, and hints of encouragement pushing all the way through it all. It’s an eccentric mix of emotions to blend together, and it’s all the more unique for it. Consider giving more of their songs a look, possibly while booting up a few levels of Neon White, or the comic/manga FREQ which this song is made for.
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