Gang Gang Dance - Sacer

They paint you on walls and touch your skin. Steal your style, try to package your being.

Album: Eye Contact [5th album]
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia, Indietronica
Album Release: May 9th 2011
Length: 5:39
Producer: Gang Gang Dance & Sean Maffucci
Vocalist: Lizzi Bougatsos
Label: 4AD Records

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Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: 202,000 +
YouTube Music: 24,000 +
Pitchfork's Best Albums of 2011: #25
Stereogum's Best Albums of 2011: #6
The Guardian's Best Albums of 2011: #26
Uncut's Best Albums of 2011: #22

Credits

Drums, guitar, synthesizer

Details

• 'Eye Contact' is a love it or hate it album. It's definitely music that falls under the "weird" category, but that word to me means interesting, different and experimental as well as unusual. If you've got the patience, the album has its rewards and it benefits from multiple listens. The Brooklyn based band create spacy, electro soundscapes that evolve into a higher tempo with East Asian vocal flourishes. It's like an updated Orbital only with live instruments and a sprinkling of the Orient for good measure.
  
  The work here is avant-garde, the opening track runs for over 11 minutes, but was considered their most accessible record at the time of release because it has a stronger sense of form than their earlier albums. However, the music remains abstract by any standard measure. The band could be classified as art pop, dance, ambient or indie and features all of these genres in parts which adds up when you consider they started life as an art project in New York.
  
  Artists like Jon Hopkins make similar, experimental music that envelopes the listener in an intimate warmth but Gang Gang Dance have a focal point in the form of their strange vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos that gives the music an individuality lacking in their purely instrumental contemporaries.
  
  
  

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