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January 13, 2005
Myriad Pyramids, pt. 2
Metro Area - Miura
Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani as Metro Area have constructed an icy landscape with 'Miura', which comes from their self-titled 2002 debut. Those of you that listened to the Purple Flash Orchestra cut from Morgan Geist's 'Unclassics' that I posted a month or so ago will find that Metro Area's work maps the same unsteady ground as the electronic disco tracks from that mix.
That was a warm-up paragraph.
'Miura' starts off with a bass pulse that sounds exactly like the reverbrations of a swimming pool's high-dive board, at the moment that the diver's weight leaves the board completely. Bass drum and handclaps. 'Oh-oh-uh-oh' chorus injections from a soft voice. Slashingly cinematic strings. There is a lot of cloudy space in this track. If this song were to be played in a club, it would be someplace where cartoonishly pink women get down with Beaker-esque Muppets, and the bar's constructed entirely from glass and chrome. A club that you could peek at, but not dance in.
An easy solution is to just buy the Metro Area LP. (Also check out the Kelley Polar Quartet's 'Rococo' EP, if you have the chance. KPQ are viciously good.) It's good to be back.
Posted by matt at January 13, 2005 08:00 AM