“ Guggenheim Wax Museum,” for example, uses guitar but no bass, the keys taking the responsibility for providing the low end. The album has guitar and bass, but bass typically doesn’t appear in tracks that use keys. Drums are handled either by drum machine or looper, which could easily be played along with keys or just left to its own devices while playing a bass. Everything here is achievable with two people.
Have a Nice Life is nominally a two piece (Dan and Tim), and the composition of the songs reflects how small the band is. The worldview here isn’t necessarily a positive one, but it also expresses a desire to be rid of that kind of negativity, which I like. Obviously, if you’re mainly working on the release of emotion, then you need to build an emotion first, so the album also works on some angst and a bit of doom and gloom (I love me some doom and gloom). The real interesting mood here is the sense of catharsis that runs throughout the album - choruses take it up to another level, vocals are shouts that just barely rise above walls of noise. Noise and post-punk have already been all over this year-in-review, and this isn’t the last time either will show up again.
Or maybe they’re just things I think are cool. I’m a bit surprised at how little was said about The Unnatural World(I blame the band for naming themselves Have a Nice Life). Post-punk is in a bit of a revival period, and taking elements of noise and shoegaze is a cool thing to do.
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