So So Modern/ Crude Futures

So So Modern
Crude Futures
(Transgressive Records)

What no foreplay? We’re getting straight into it already? Ok, cool. KA-BOOM! We’re in.
Blasting from 0-100mph, So So Modern so so don’t give a shit if you’re ready or not. They’re so so gonna launch straight into it. And as far as I’m concerned, I appreciate that kind of direct honesty.
What’s great about this hotly anticipated album is its unpredictability. There are moments where you think the music is going to head in a certain direction but then it changes course at the last minute. It’s rather exhilarating.
From the violent guitars of ‘Dendrons’, to the undulating synth on ‘Berlin’, and impassioned, angsty vocals on ‘Worst is Yet to Come’, Crude Futures has a precise, mathematical accuracy to it, and although it achieves the end result, how the band get there is a different thing altogether.
It’s as though they're flicking on and off multiple power switches that control each instrument. One minute, we’re enjoying a nice bit of chilled out synth, vocals guitar and bass, the next minute the floor disappears and we’re in a totally new territory - new sounds, new everything. Like, where did that sound go? I dunno. We’re doing this now. Fucking deal with it.