15 points awarded for the name alone, Kylie Monologue ride high on the metaphorical (analogical? I never know) wave of musical awesomeness with this catchy gem that kicks off the first of MEANS’ very own compilation series. It’s all a bit silly and that’s a compliment: a pseudo-house adventure of iconic claps and bouncing baselines, framed by a guitar part nicked from the hymnbook of some beachside indie prog outfit.
If I was cool enough to go to clubs this is the sort of thing I’d expect to hear in them – repetitive, self-assured, driving patterns, a stream of small, perfectly formed riffs dislodging one another form the foreground. Each new part seems to borrow from the last, an eternally rotating conveyor-belt of adjunct loops, all cast in that wonderful cloak of ephemeral reverb. This sort of thing sometimes sucks because loops are fundamentally a little boring, shorn of expression, of discrepancy: but here the top-layer guitar wanders above its more reserved counterparts with such performative variation as to bring the whole thing to permanent life, it’s modest 5 and a bit minutes simultaneously lasting seconds and hours.
links:
https://kyliemonologue.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/kylie_monologue/?hl=en
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Daniel Alexander Hignel-Tully
MEANS 