The indie hype cycle can be a pretty boring place at times: with every successful act or sound comes a veritable horde of similar artists, perpetuated by bandwagon hopping bloggers, and fans looking for similar vibes, and it all is about as dull and uninspiring as slow-drying paint until someone new comes along and does things differently. These messiahs cross pollinate and cross reference, they create interdisciplinarily, they stretch into a multitude of past and contemporary honeypots to create something that resembles “unique” and “original”… And then all is right and exciting again, until the process churns and grinds once more.
The interim phantasm, in this case, is Gilligan Moss. If the entire beatmaking world stopped and stared and aped, and listeners heard and discovered and applauded, we’d all be better off. “Choreograph,” the Chicagoan’s second single of the year, is as weirdly unstoppable as they come:
Need a song for that Halloween dance party you’re planning-slash-invited-to? Found it. “Choreograph” sounds like the Wild Things from Where The Wild Things Are stumbled onto a drum kit and accidentally created the Greatest Song they’ve ever heard, like the culmination of every imagined sound by every child visitor to their tiny island paradise, set to polyrhythms and one wicked crescendo. I could listen to this for hours, and to the aggravation of my neighbors, I probably will.
Listen to another song, “Hemlock”, at Gilligan Moss’s soundcloud page »
