Gang Gang Dance are based out of the big apple yet make music that sounds straight out of a psychedelic Indian night club. Starting their careers off as noise-makers and experimental clunkers; describing themselves as "insane, rule-breaking almost-noise." Now they have centralized around a more cohesive sound that is, despite not being noise rock, is all over the place in context of a foreign listener. The most broad genre placement of Gang Gang Dance is simply electropop with experimental twangs. Their latest LP, Eye Contact, is incredibly dancey and way out there.
Starting an album off with a phrase such as "it's everything time," but one of the band mates, could shoot this album straight off into the wrong direction, but luckily "Glass Jar" is a momentous intro that conceives itself into an epic climax of worldly club beats. Lead singer Lizzi Bougatsos manipulates her voice into an image of Eastern origins, when really she isn't. Her vocals are off-setting at any listen, her voice doesn't exactly grow into its own, but rather stays shrill and over-the-top for such brash music. Her best moments are on the mellow bridge in "Chinese High" with her soft vocals gently grazing over beautiful instrumentation.
"Mindkilla", Eye Contact's midpoint, points itself into the ultimate decision maker towards enjoying this album, or despising it. The ending of a siren echoing throughout solidifies my thoughts toward "Mindkilla"; annoyingly over-the-top close to electronic doodling with a steady beat that never catches my attention to centralizing an overlying emotional appeal to Eye Contact. The breaks in between sounds that are infinity signs are a hit and miss, the one between "Mindkilla" and "Romance Layers" sets the latter up perfectly with a nice, romantic electropop tune. The other "infinity" signs in other parts of the album are the misses, creating dissonant randomness that doesn't diverge with the rest of the album.
The overall appearance to Eye Contact is a huge hit and miss scenario. "Glass Jar" is an epic electronica fiesta (probably wrong word choice there) and weaker tracks have their eye-opening moments that really fit well within yourself like mellowed out bridge in "Chinese High" and the overall beat to "Sacer". Though Eye Contact is largely considered average, there are some amazing moments that are worth a couple of listens just to hear these transcending moments within the album. I guess the band really did mean it when they say it is "everything time..."
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