Messy Lesson: How Liars are setting the blueprint for electro transformation / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
I believe it was Ziggy Stardust who sang “it ain’t easyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyyyyyyyy / it ain’t easyyy... to pull off the musical reinvention of going all electro”. What a self-fulfilling prophesy that turned out to be, as Mr Stardust discovered when he created the satirical washed-up rockstar character “David Bowie” and produced a drum ‘n’ bass album while dressed in a Union Jack overcoat. Indeed, the act of “going electro” can so often reek of desperation, opportunism, cynicism, ineptitude, insincerity, insecurity, artificiality, charlatanism, unscrupulousness, creat...
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