telefon tel avivコミュのhelen of troy/ telefon tel aviv from bpitch control

Where we're going, we don't need Rhodes. Or guitar. Not everything will automatically be beautiful and a few things might even hurt.

That's because Telefon Tel Aviv have apparently scrapped their forthcoming third album's previously reported title, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, in favor of the more inflammatory (sorry) Immolate Yourself, at the same time tossing aside their usual instruments-- and signature attention to micro-edit detail.

Now signed to Ellen Allien's Bpitch Control label, the Chicago-based New Orleans transplants instead find beauty in imperfection on new song "Helen of Troy", sure to launch a few ships (or bedroom recording projects) with its grainy, textured synth-pop.

Telefon Tel Aviv's music has generally been melodic, but even so, "Helen of Troy" is an unusually direct, warm-- almost romantic-- offering from this duo of Joshua Eustis and Charles Cooper, evoking favorable comparisons to M83 and making the Killers look like knuckleheads.

Not the jazzy liquid post-rock of 2001's Fahrenheit Fair Enough, nor the swooping orchestral electro-soul of 2004 follow-up Map of What Is Effortless, the song floats along on a current of wavy, vintage synth sounds, a driving bass line, and cascading drums that show they haven't quite lost their knack for intricacy.

"Follow me, in the car, off a bridge," goes a modest tenor vocal, encircled by ahhs. Well, since you asked nicely, and since I'm trying to dodge Agamemnon's draft...

quote from pitchfork

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