Familiarity tends to fend off novel experience, threatening to impose on our ears an excessive intake of stale creation. It’s the surprising discovery of different music that dares those falling into a routine of normal to indulge in variation. Try something different. Listen to something new.
Always and forever a source of immense joy that comes with music writing, and general music fandom, is the accidental stumbling upon of music that fills a void within that you had not even known existed. I experienced such an overwhelming sense of emotion today after an immersive listening to Carnivora, the sometimes cavernous, sometimes effectively superficial project from Elegant Animals – a five-piece group based in Philadelphia that expertly blends elements of electro, hip-hop, industrial starkness and emotional darkness to hit a variety of chords.
Listen to Carnivora below.