Fill Your Hard Drive: Neat Beats – “Science is my Girlfriend”
February 15, 2009
It is a common event amongst music nerds to name drop your friend’s band whilst engaged in a “band-dropping” contest. This is one way music nerds can assert their indie street cred without having to know any bands besides their struggling musician friends. Neat Beats are not one of those bands. It is true, I do know the musician known on the internet as Neat Beats, but I refuse to name-drop someone I actually think is talented. Instead, I will try and review and spread the work about Neat Beats in lieu of attempting to pilfer indie-cred off of him.
Neat Beat’s music is somewhat downtempo electronic music reminiscent of the laptop extraordinaire Four Tet, or the obscure sample hound Madlib, with a touch of RJD2. What he lacks in song-title-writing-skills, he more than makes up for in production (some of your titles are weird, dude). “Graffiti on a Monday Night,” opens the EP with some reverse-sampled goodness and resolves in a torrent of glitchy rhythms. Along the way the forboding band break-up sample “You Fucking Die!” from the Pixie’s Surfer Rosa graces the track. The quick drums and female vocals of “Safe in Sound” will sing you to sleep before you make it halfway through the album while the last track “Robot 30931 Feels Existential Despair” sounds and feels like a b-side from a Flaming Lips album.
But don’t take my word for it; Listen to the album below:
Neat Beats – “Science is my Girlfriend”
Also, check out:
Highway Hypnosis 