I’ve always been one of those people for whom being told to chill out or calm down is guaranteed to provoke ire. Friends, family and my doctor would probably say I ought to simmer down a bit, but it’s simply not how I’m wired. So music that’s made for chilling out to has a tendency to make me only more tense. This means that reading the blurb about Italian electro duo A Copy for Collapse, which describes them as blending ‘genres as chillwave, electro, synthpop and nugaze, creating a dreamlike sound backed with memorable beats’ didn’t make me think ‘hey, this is just what I need to unwind after an arduous day at the office’.
Thankfully, there are dark undertones swirling around the insistent basslines that drive the album’s 10 tracks and there are heavy hints of the vintage Factory sound in abundance. As much A Certain Ratio as New Order, there are moments where the solid rhythms shift up a gear and surge forth, to uplifting effect. If at times it feels a little too much like some robotic reproduction of 80s electro, it’s made up for by the careful attention to texture and the layering of the sounds, which keep things engaging.
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