We've started this again 3 times now (the video, not the blog). It's the video for Alex Metric's 'It Starts', and it looks not unlike the moving pictures which appear in the box below:
Ironically, Robot is lounging in front of yet another episode of Come Dine With Me as Pigeon writes this. Maybe he will think twice once he has seen the video - or maybe we'll just end up hosting a dinner party with four fat, drunk strangers.
Anyway, the point is we forgot how arresting and relentlessly brilliant 'It Starts' is. Taken from the eponymously (that's not quite the right word, but we've always wanted to write it so we're going to leave it) titled EP released late last year, it grabs you from the opening second and never lets up for all of its 3 minutes and 19 seconds.
The guitar riff drags the track somewhere across the electro/indie divide, but has its roots firmly in dirty beats rather than scraggly haired and skinny jeaned indie kids. Chuck in a great topline and the nicely put together video you just watched and you have all the makings of someone RobotPigeon are getting in a flap about.
It's also worth checking out the rest of the EP. 'Gusto' is a particular highlight with its blaring sirens and incessant scratching paving the way for dirty dirty synths.
In short, we heart Alex Metric. Now hurry up with that bloody album yeah?
Get 'It Starts' off of iTunes if you feel so inclined.
Monday, 4 January 2010
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