Billboards scream your name from all sides as the air force conducts formation drills directly overhead. Shopping carts, electric pickup trucks, and unicycles compete for space on the roads, all alongside the variously costumed pedestrians. Windows endlessly stack upon each other far into outer space. Screams from a distant fistfight harmonize with the nearby man who has turned his set of plastic buckets into a drum kit. Love poems in every language grace the lips of every perfect passerby.
Out of a chaotic world emerges a disheveled aesthetic, one embodied by split-screen tik toks and frantically edited YouTube videos. Such careless content floods the brain with disjointed streams of stimulus, and the excess oozes out of the mouth in the form of disorganized rambling. However, the occasional visionary artist harnesses the power of the algorithm to provide us with beautiful, fascinating projects that scratch the brain’s dopamine itch while providing the subconscious with some genuine complexity to chew through. One such endeavor, Bagel Fanclub’s how are your cars driving?, sketches the silhouette of music to come, a chaotic environment democratically co-inhabited by dozens of distinct, fleshed-out, independent sounds.
Musically, how are your cars driving? brings together bass-loaded hyperpop and cheery chiptune, forming the foundation of a sound that later receives endless embellishment in the form of noisy synths and massive drums. Each rich sonic layer stands on its own as a fascinating musical adventure, as melodies weave in and out of one another in a masterfully choreographed ballroom dance. Bagel Fanclub’s attempt to tame and channelize the pure chaos of the internet results in a stunning composition whose existence justifies all of those subway surfer / family guy combo tik toks. Take a swan dive into the soul of your daily feed by listening at the link below!