catalogue

DEASTRO

VERMILLION PLAZA (GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL)

DEASTRO - VERMILLION PLAZA 154349
format:
1 7"
release:
12.05.2009
label:
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
genre:
Electro/Funk
item ID:
154349
barcode:
0804297901800
"Vermillion Plaza," the second single from Deastro's full-length debut, Moondagger, miniaturizes the album's best assets and shoots them out of a cannon.

Plucky synth arpeggios, end-of-the-world choruses, joyously careening melody lines-it's all there, squashed into a life-affirming three minutes and 50 seconds.

"Vermillion Plaza"'s hidden weapon is its songcraft, which may easily goes unnoticed as the pop-music blur flies by-the song lives uneasily in its skin, buttressing its fireworks display of a chorus with odd moments of synthesizer psychedelia, funk, and disco.

And when Deastro's Randolph Chabot pleads for contact, singing, "Would you be my son / 'cause all of mine have died?," it's less a cry of self-pity than a salute to the power of human connection.

The B-side is Mux Mool's lumbering, half-time remix of "Vermillion Plaza." The former Ghostly Swim featured artist plunges Chabot's vocal into a sinister electronic nightmare-scape, squelching through mud puddles of bass as synthesized strings circle the skies.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. VERMILLION PLAZA
  • 1.2. VERMILLION PLAZA (MUX MOOL SOUR VELCRO REMIX)