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Modulator:
Don't Hold out on Me EP
Pop music. A recent debate between myself and a few friends, centered around an internet discussion board, weaved in and out of the various current definitions of pop versus Popular Music, culminating in various name-calling, musical snobbery, and running around answers before finally settling upon hating each other. A side conversation over beers, later, decided upon the defining characteristics of Pop as the 60s movement towards simple chord progressions and a focus on the vocal stylings of a particular timbre/methodology of singing. Heres what I know about Pop music in the modern age: The New Pornographers. I feel that the essence of Pop music lies in the method and equation of simple instrumentation, wacky distorted keyboards, and loud and clear vocals singing about things playful or sad. Simple love songs, really. Modulator brings another band to the Pop forefront with every bit of the equation filled. The charming parts of this EP are in the easygoing and, dare I say it, fun keyboard hooks and in the laughable (but with, as opposed to at the artist) lyrics in constant comparisons of human emotion to robots and circuitry, combining the synthesized music and the sense of human experience as a synthesized perception. Of the three tracks on the disk, the standout by far is the lead track, Major Malfunction. Combining the simple rock-guitar style riffs with the full-on sound of upbeat keyboards and nerdy female vocals, its easy to fall in love with this bands attitude towards music, life, and love. This three-track EP makes the geek inside me feel quite at ease with my love of computers and video games. A nerd-affirming band for the Pop Music fan in all of us. An excellent entry in an otherwise rather stagnant world of the same old things. I recommend booting up this EP as soon as possible.
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