12/24/2022 0 Comments Hyperspace madness![]() ![]() The opening “Start of It All,” details the union nicely. Well, maybe the love affair of Collen and Miles all by itself. What could be better than a space-based love affair? There’s certainly some David Bowie doing his Major Tom schtick, but it all seems less faux-futuristic here. ![]() I ride the light-years / Until I come undone.” Yet Miles as lead singer is just dripping with drama: “I’m a cowboy / I live to fly in the sun. It opens just like the Bay State’s “Winter Mitts,” but replaces that elegant viola with a keyboard line that’s as inorganic as the vacuum of space. That’s “Moonbase Blues” for you, taking classic rock and making it science fiction. ![]() What station is this? Did you slip me something? Why is Freddie Mercury wearing that astronaut suit? Basically, you play something like a keyboard or an MPC, and then can route the sound through any number of virtual machines to create the sound you’re looking for (which may or may not wind up sounding like an “instrument”). Producer James Holden seems to be one of its bigger proponents, along with bands like Australia’s Hunz, who maybe sound a bit like Crunk Witch. This is thanks to a bit of open-source programming software called Buzz, which is worth investigating if you’re the type to crush time on Reddit and install your own Linux server. The songs are big radio rock tunes, sometimes more like Broadway bits, but with a space-aged bent that makes everything disorienting. With the brand-new Heartbeats in Hyperspace, it’s like they’ve put together a top-drawer session band, but everyone’s playing through pedals that turn guitar chords into buzzing digitization, snares into sizzling fuzzbombs, horns into distended whirls. The all-digital, husband-wife duo of Brandon Miles and Hannah Collen have created enough material at this point to establish a clear method behind what can sometimes seem like madness. Three albums in, Crunk Witch are now far more than novelty. The Crunk Witch that they are Down from the County: Heartbeats in Hyperspace ![]()
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