Sometimes here at Your EDM, we like to check out the borderlands of electronic music for a while to see how this universe is creating itself at its edges. Sort of a musical Slab City, if you will. Sometimes in that fringe yet endlessly creative space, artists dwell that are excellent but possibly not quite electronic enough for YEDM, but we watch them nonetheless. Post punk/art rock band Cosmopolis is one of those acts who were just on that leading edge of electronica who, with their latest industrial-tinged single โNixon-Manson,โ has pushed their way into the electronica consciousness, and youโd better believe weโre here for it.
โNixon-Mansonโ is only Cosmopolisโ fourth single since the trio, based in three different and geographically widespread cities (Brussels, Brisbane and London) but their style is already well-developed and polished. From their first single โGod Hotelโ in mid-2020, their trippy, semi-psychedelic style of merging guitars with psychobilly-inspired sound design was unique enough for a load of listeners and press to take notice.
Developing along that post rock and post punk line, the haunting, melodic and slightly shoegzey โSรฉcheresseโ and the minimal yet heavy Waits-or-Cave-inspired โThe Distancesโ also contained that ambient electronic flare that once again piqued the interest of crossover music fans to see where theyโd go next. Now we have an answer in โNixon-Manson,โ a decidedly EDM-y offering which dropped on Cosmopolisโ Bandcamp page last month.
Hovering on the arty edge of industrial and the Love and Rockets Edge of goth, โNixon-Mansonโ does a good job of showing Cosmopolisโ compositional bones, which are rooted in the classical and theatrical. Even though the song changes tempos, beat structures and even genres quite a bit along its journey to give it that arty, post rock illusion of organized chaos, itโs clear all the parts of the track were plotted meticulously along a score sheet (or screen, more likely). They would have to be, given the number of moving parts and the chaotic crescendo at the end. When the eerie, droning vox are the main grounding force of a track, you know itโs got to be meticulously designed.
While itโs nice to see Cosmopolis firmly in the electronica camp now, it seems clear with their work so far that โNixon-Mansonโ is not necessarily a watchword of them moving that way permanently. With a style as fluid with theirs and clear talent to make almost limitless sound ideas happen, we canโt really predict where theyโll go next, but thatโs the fun of Slab City, isnโt it? You never know what youโre going to see when you venture out that way, but you know itโs always going to be impressive.
โNixon-Mansonโ is out now and can be streamed or purchased on Cosmopolisโ Bandcamp page. Check out their YouTube channel for more intense videos.
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This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: New Artist Spotlight: Cosmopolis Combine Arty Post Rock With Electronic Sound Design for a Smoother Entre Into their Dark World [Video]
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