Within recent years, Brooklyn has been known to spawn some pretty over the top and deranged experimental acts, which invariably transcend the most esoteric of the borough’s neighborhoods and their myriad galleries and dive bars.
Happy Lives is no exception. To file them under “experimental” wouldn’t do any justice. There’s almost no consistency in the music they create, and no two songs sound the same, a feat most bands couldn’t fathom accomplishing. One minute they may go from a Nirvana-inspired alt- rock ( “Slacks and Slippers”), to a campy 50’s and 60’s ditty (“Feelin’ Right”). Audiences don’t seem to care though. Going by a number of the band’s videos on their YouTube channel, the music of Happy Lives is enough to get even the most blase of all hipsters dancing, or at least nodding their heads along to the beat.
“This Song Is Called I’m Dead” straddles the boundaries of electronica and experimental indie rock, and the sound the band produces with this track meshes together snippets of indie “neo pop”, and the result of much-fidgeting-with a digital sampler. It bounces back and forth from a crashy drum loop, which is in turn layered over creepily altered, child-like voices, and eventually a slowed down deep, melancholy vocal track accompanied by a whimsical bassline. It is at times grating and inaccessible, perhaps by design; however by the end you’re taken over by it, and left wanting. We can’t wait to see the direction in which these guys evolve sonically and creatively. In the meantime catch them live at a smattering of hip warehouse/art/DIY parties that you can stumble upon, tucked in the folds of Brooklyn, like tonight, for example. Until you see their exceptional live performance, listen to “This Song Is Called I’m Dead”, right here on audiofemme.
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