Shuffle - What’s That You Got? (Bloodlust)
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By: Alex Lee Thomson
When you first hear Shuffle, or see them for that matter, you're confused. Their music by design is unabashed randomness, or apparent randomness anyway. When you're confronted, and confronted you will be, by this single there's a blast of sound that hits you in several places at once and while the genre raping beats, guitars, samples, drums and vocals smack your pallet simultaneously. Behind all the confusion lies an analytical precision that's been meticulously constructed by the bands frontrunners Seamus Hays and Monica Yam.
Once you realise that this song isn't so much jazz-like improvisation, but a painstakingly arranged bombardment of amalgamations, it becomes something much bigger than whatever bizarre pigeonhole you're trying to shove it in. Shuffle have become bored of all this classification in music and ask why you can't be experimental and pop at the same time, and why you can't be indescribably eccentric yet restrained and well orchestrated. Such questions have been asked and answered by this single.
Little substance in British music has the power to shock in the way that 'What's That You Got' and its seductive b-side 'Needles' can, with a persuasive and chaotic collection of catchy lines sandwiched over one another until they're almost unrecognisable, nearing the event-horizon of calculation. Only when you start to become obsessed - and again, obsessed you will be - by this that all the keyhole views merge into the genius of this exciting glimpse into the future of where cross-genre pollination is going. Only when you've polished off the last of the vodka and you're lying butt-naked on your bedroom floor wrapped in a guitar wire crying into your cola stained pillowcase with this song on loop, will you realise the brilliance it has achieved.
Watch the video to 'What's That You Got?' HERE.
Artists in this article: Shuffle
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