Moss Facet Sauna Membership: MY WEIRD APPETITE
(Steam Room)
DL/Streaming
Manchester newcomers Moss Facet Sauna Membership launch the colourful new single MY WEIRD APPETITE. A vivid synth led observe, carried ahead by a palpable indie vitality, the observe is an ingenious, buoyant effort which captures business enchantment and experimental undercurrent inside the band’s sound.
Bringing collectively components of hyperpop and indietronica with a properly positioned different undercurrent, the observe is as akin to POLIÇA as it’s to the likes of Faculty Of Seven Bells. Opening with a placing fuzzy synth bass, the observe quickly introduces its driving stay drums and gently processed lead vocals to create a pulsing, placing soundscape. Progressing to the refrain, the observe opens out with a spacious reverb which floats across the vocal.
As MY WEIRD APPETITE progresses, as does the glitchy nature of the manufacturing, as if it’s regularly changing into extra unhinged and unravelling, mirroring the playful nature of the lyricism. Bringing in an elegantly labored guitar line on the mid level, vocal cuts dance across the soundscape and the tracks creativity thrives, permitting properly positioned samples to decorate the artistic sonic concepts, and in the end hammering dwelling that this isn’t “pop” however one thing way more nuanced.
Made up of Will Brooks, Maddy Storm and Sam Craighan, Moss Facet Sauna Membership themselves describe MSSC as “a three-piece band and we’ve recognized one another for years. We got here collectively to make an album through the worst occasions of our lives as an alternative of going to remedy. The undertaking got here as a warmth stroke induced fever dream as Sam desperately tried to really feel good once more in his native leisure centre. It’s been downhill ever since.” That quote may sound bleak, however the band finds humour within the hell of all of it, turning despair into disarmingly catchy alternative-pop.
The observe itself was written, recorded and produced by MSSC at Steam Room Studios in Salford, blended by Maddy Storm and mastered by Pete Maher (Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Pixies). With a debut album on the way in which, the trio are already making noise on the stay circuit, from their sold-out headline present at Manchester’s The Rat and Pigeon to a buzzy showcase for Discover Pleasure at The Outdated Blue Final in London.
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