Signer – Next We Bring You The Fire
I’m tired of hearing about shit that “sounds like Panda Bear” too, which is what makes New Zealand’s Signer such a damned impressive find. I wouldn’t even necessarily say that Signer sounds that much like Panda Bear, but I can understand why it would make sense to use Noah Lennox as a reference point for Signer’s music. However, though presumably employing similar means, Signer uses them to a very different – and to me, much more enjoyable – end.
When someone uses the word “lush” to describe music, there is the connotation of the organic, the lushness that accompanies a sweeping vista of verdant, virgin forest. This is not Signer. The music is extremely colorful, colorful like melted down Skittles smeared across the innards of a computer motherboard still operating, blinking lights shooting vaguely forth beneath the thinly-coated areas. Many musicians attempt to mimic the “living and breathing” idiom of natural symbols – Next We Bring You The Fire plays like the similarly romanticized Artificial Intelligence attempting to cybernetically emulate living and breathing, and is bathed in the disconnectedness of a computer wishing it could feel. The sounds are beautiful and utterly unique – the soundscapes are hypnotic in the way that Tron’s computer environments must have been to moviegoers in the 1980s. Much like the way in which our society becomes continually more integrated with technology, the music’s pixelated beauty fully absorbs you, each trip through its wireframe landscapes offering new surprises.
Next We Bring You The Fire is available on vinyl and as a digital download from Signer’s label, Carpark, also home to Dan Deacon and Keith Fullerton Whitman.
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