Without doubt one of the most thrilling live shows to reveal itself across festival stages this summer – the drumming is so tight it’s beyond belief – Manchester’s Another Country $$$$ are steadily defining themselves as masters of suspense and satisfying pay-offs. And yes, I’m talking massive, heaving drops.
Their new single is no exception. Marking their signing to Black Acre (SCALER), in collaboration with Spinny Nights – as well as the news of a new EP ‘IMAGE OF A FIRE’ – due 17th February – ‘WANT’ displays all of the electronic duo’s polymathic virtues. What elsewhere in their catalogue is jungle, DnB, garage, dub, and haunting noise, here it’s, Hyperpop pirouettes, string quartets and whatever blazing hellhole ‘that’ bombshell synth line spawned from.
Delivering the hottest beats for the science-fiction raver, the sound of Another Country $$$$ is online overload translated into euphoric, modern dance. It’s the feeling of hurtling through the cyberfucked matrix, head rushed in a blitz of dopamine and dystopia. It’s the sound of bliss and rhythm firing into your nerve centres at 1000 hits a second. And as the limbs fly, you ask yourself, this is heaven, but at what cost?
Photo by Shyamoli Shah
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