Gang Colours could be classified under the highly contentious genre known as ‘post-dubstep’. To give you an idea, artists such as James Blake , Jamie Woon and Chet Faker have been classified under this newly constructed musical classification but is it even a real genre? Post-dubstep came about as an answer to an enigmatic shift in musical experimentation where artists kept coming out of the woodwork creating songs that did not fit any distinct classification. It isn’t quite dubstep, although elements of half-step and head down bro-step are evident, it isn’t exactly bass music as that implies some sort of dance element, and it isn’t definitively pop. “Fuck it, let’s just call it post-dubstep,” said bloggers world wide “anyone got a problem with that?”, and so the world replied “Nah… whatever”. And the genre was ‘born’.
Whatever it is, the Gang Colours’ track “To Repel Ghosts” is it. His break beat drums, eerie effects, piano and delicate voice suit the genre to a tee and from what this track has presented to me, he is well and truly up there with the aforementioned. His production quality is clean and precise, just as most ‘post-dubstep’ producers are, and when his melancholy vocals greet me at the two minute mark of this song the track gets even better. One last thing, and I know this is going to sound incredibly ignorant of someone writing on a music website, but how do they know when certain sound effects will improve a song’s resonance?
REVIEW BY HUW NOLAN
WORDS BY Huw Nolan
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