They say that music is more about what you don’t play than what you do. As if mainlining this mantra straight into their bones, Most Things’ newest cut provides yet another exquisite exercise in how much nuance they can achieve and feel with just a bass, drum-kit and mic.
The sound of a band working maximalism into minimalism, ‘Lucky’ sows a whole field with a handful of seeds; takes a stepladder and reaches for the stars. As with previous cuts ‘Shops!’ and ‘Head and Shoulders’, this one’s also short and bittersweet, with whomping bass stabs and clattering rhythmic structures to-ing, fro-ing, leaping and front-flipping like parkour artists vaulting London’s urban sprawl.
Speaking of which, as a consummately ‘London’ band, it’s a track that lyrically too rotoscopes through the weird, jumbled mish-mash of a certain kind of modern metropolitan living. In just 2 minutes, the mundane merges with memory; romance mingles into death and sincerity vyes with deadpan wit (“We touch teeth past use by dates” is a great line). For every reflection on lost childhood innocence, or every image of body bags or medication, there’s an off-hand shout-out to women’s jeans, or a gleeful choir of retching.
Upcoming debut album ‘Bigtime’ lands 23rd May, and could not come sooner. Shows across the UK with Elias Rønnenfelt loom in June.
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