So Australian music follows a pretty predictable formula, a formula that you may have noticed comes across on what we publish here at Happy. We’ll cover about six artists on a good day – two of them will be solo electronica/R&B projects, two of them will be underage indie and two of them will be surf-grunge-fuzz 90’s guitar bands. Hey, at least we’re not making you put up with Aussie Hip Hop, amirite?
Felicity Yang well and truly fits into the first category – a solo electronic project from ol’ Melbourne town which other, less insightful bloggers might write “defies genre”. What happens when you listen to more music that defies genre than sticks to it? Without any shame in my cynicism, I’d say genre defiance becomes generic – birthing genres based around the lack of genre. #liberalarts #USYD #wankery
Sun Arms is the latest in a collection of experimental-ish, blippity bloopities available on her Soundcloud page. The percussion here is snappy, the pads are dissociatively time bending and the soundscapes are distinctly human. Although the track samples (I’m guessing) nature sounds, the way they are presented remind the listener more of the incessant ringing of phones, notifications on the social media du jour or the constant barrage of emails from whatever publicist, shopping outlet or employer decides to be on your ass today.
This theme of unstoppable, flowing modernity continues in Half Moon. Opening more like an Antlers track than an electronica track, lonely kicks puncture the canvas of sounds, followed by beat defying rimshots. Each sample sounds like the sonic equivalent of putting something through altavista’s babelfish – the slightly less inspiring 00’s equivalent to today’s Google translate. Garbled, ambient and beautiful, this one reminds me of time lapsed footage of traffic for some reason, and has given me a strange urge to play SimCity 4 again.
If you’re a fan of Seekae, The Richard D James Album or are looking for something a little stranger than your average electronic fare out there these days, it’s well worth checking out all 8 of Felicity Yang miscellaneous Soundcloud uploads, especially her oldest recording Stardust. Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta give my dealer a buzz and listen to all this the way it was intended.
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