Band Of The Day #19 - TELEPATHE "Chrome's On It"
“Busy and I are ‘hookers’. That’s what Dave Sitek calls us, in that we are totally into making music with sick hooks. We got bored with making drone music and now we are obsessed with making the catchiest fucking music ever.”
Where are Telepathe going? Far from their initial guise, which found central players Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais playfully mimicking the esoteric pursuits of Brooklyn beatniks Gang Gang Dance and Effi Briest on the barren bastard Farewell Forest EP (Social Registry; link).
The glut of inspired avant-garde out in the NYC district has swollen with the addition of Gangnes and Livaudais’s new Telepathe, one that’s comfortable enough to mess around with the girl-group shenanigans of The Shangri-Las as well as wrestle with the heavier weight of Gang Gang; the broken beat of Black Dice.
“The future for us is about making many more records and not getting attached to any certain process of music making. We always want a good challenge. We never want to be locked into any certain genre or whatever.”
With their debut record, Dance Mother, produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, waiting in the wings, rarely have such haunted pop frolics seemed so essential. With über-pop baron White Williams’ Prophet ’08 synth admired like a shiny new toy, ‘Chrome’s On It’ is viciously sweet, a totemic flutter of pulses and those Prophet ’08’s artfully jostled into place by Don Caballero’s Eric Emm. ‘Chrome’s On It’ will satisfy, we promise. You do want your pulses to flutter, don’t you?
“We can do the real bang bang, but first you gotta know my name.”
"tə - lěp' ə - thě"
Download: Telepathe - 'Chrome's On It'
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