MUST DIE! - VOGUE

MUST DIE! makes music that sounds like a server room catching fire, and VOGUE is him leaning all the way into it. The first minute is almost polite by his standards, a clipped vocal and some negative space, and then around 1:20 the whole thing folds in on itself and starts screaming metal. I’ve heard a lot of design-y dubstep that mistakes ugliness for aggression; this one earns the ugliness because there’s an actual hook underneath, a two-note motif that keeps surfacing between the chaos so you never lose the thread. It’s the rare heavy track I could hum afterwards, which shouldn’t be possible given how much of it is pure texture. On a real system the sub sits right in your sternum. On earbuds you get maybe half the picture, so don’t judge it there. The title’s a joke and the track isn’t; it struts, then it bites. Good to have him back sounding this feral.

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