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These Are Powers “Double Double Yolk”

These Are Powers specialize in making pleasurable music that nonetheless feels a bit sickly and gross. In some tracks, particularly their earlier work, their percussive grooves and metallic tones evoked dull, persistent headaches, or the stinging-eye sensation of going just a bit too long without sleep. On their debut full-length album, the music feels more like an upset stomach. Just listen to “Double Double Yolk” — it’s all churning rhythms and gurgling synthesizers, vertigo and nervous acid. It’s severely disorienting, but somehow it still reads as being a bit pop. The vocals probably help, as least in as much as they sound a bit sexy in the context of some seriously icky sonic textures, and that they feel somewhat level and grounded in a composition that seems to float on a stormy sea of gastric juices.

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