Another Sky

Differnet (featuring Action Biker) “Albuquerque” – It wasn’t so long ago that these sort of distorted electronic tones simply did not exist in music. There’s something so wonderful about having these synthetic tones that don’t quite resemble anything in the natural world, and are generally still too new to be tied in with the sort of cultural expectations that we have for guitars, pianos, horns, and strings. This track is a thing of ethereal beauty, floating along with a gorgeous vocal melody while the performers wring quite a bit of emotion out of abstracted sound waves. It feels so frigid and fragile, like a frozen lake surrounded by trees with icicles dangling from the branches like gaudy jewelry. Of course, that’s a very strange thing to say about a song named after a city in New Mexico. (Click here to buy it from Friendly Noise.)