Telepathe - Devil's Trident/ Lights Go Down

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 16 Oct, 2008.

Hype is a tedious old bugger but one act utterly worthy of the current media attention around them is Brooklyn, NY residents Telepathe. A smattering of singles and EPs so far, their increasingly mesmerising tribal electronic pop is just utterly flooring. Taking cues from so many disparate quarters to meld something new and exciting, this lady duo are bristling with ideas. On one side of their enigmatic new 7", 'Devil's Trident'/'Lights Go Down', you're drawn into a free & feral future music created from warm, drifting synths that build, morph & glide alongside one another like some prog aquatic rave euphoria, skittering percussion reminiscent of layered broken 2 step beats all topped with sassy, detached/conversational vocals that suddenly burst into pure choral abandon towards the end. Beautiful & rather startling. The other side is roughly eqivelent to Various Production's futuristic cyber-step but seriously stranger and much slinkier & feminine, like maybe Erase Errata being remixed by Darkstar! You are treated to cheeky harpsichord strokes dancing with disembodied grime shapes and sad, displaced technoid murmers. All this while the twin pronged vocals chatter playfully along creating just the kind of modern electronic music you'd like to send off in a space capsule to entertain some extra terrestrials with! Ingenious scientific pop with a wonky motorik soul, This just has to be SOTW. Clear vinyl in custom PVC sleeve plus poster with weird esoteric text currently frying my tiny Yorkshire mind! I dunno which side is which but they're both amazing so don't dither cos these lasses are uber-special.

Removed from the centrifugal forces of Brooklyn's ˜scenes" and
avant-garde formulas, but no less crafted by that powerful creative
hub, Telepathe carve up the boundaries between any number of genres
including dub, hip-hop, and progressive pop, to devastating effect.
They are the hypnotic, multi-layered sound of your new favourite
band.
Though the band has a tradition of rotating members, Melissa
Livaudais and Busy Gangnes are the creative pairing at the heart of
Telepathe. It's their half-spoken, half-sung voices that are ever- present throughout ˜Devil's Trident' seamlessly dubbed together as a unified call that's at once plainly lush and
undeniably creepy. Melissa and Busy possess an esoteric, voodoo-like
charm that's euphoric and impossible to ignore. They have an uncanny
knack for crafting a distinctive sound that's cavernous and
leftfield enough to plunder inky depths and keep things compelling,
but which owns an over-riding pop sentiment capable of ensnaring the
masses.

Telepathe's debut releases, the˜Farewell Forest' EP and
Sinister Militia 12", were released via Social Registry in the
US in 2007. Since then, their sound has developed towards the
thrilling synthetic ambience present in their most recent recordings.
Killer melodies, trance-inducing loops, drum-machine-driven
experimentation, and the haunting vocal interplay between Melissa and
Busy are Telepathe's hallmarks. Their woman-meets-machine mishmash
is present throughout debut album ˜Dance Mother', produced by TV
On The Radio's industrious Dave Sitek, due for release at the
beginning of 2009.