The Manchester math-rock bands view of political pop is a singular,anxiety-pulsing vision. But its inventiveness is welcomeThe geeks may not believe inherited the earth quite yet, but they’ve certainly colonised noteworthy swaths of the pop culture landscape. Alongside comedian book-saturated cinema, and fantasy-friendly TV shows and bookish comedy kings are the pale and awkward squad who double as the world’s biggest rock stars – the likes of Radiohead,Coldplay, Muse and Arcade Fire, or shifting records and ruling festival bills.
Yet a stranger subset of nerd-rock has emerged over recent years. It stems from the turn of the decade,when the hordes of swaggering indie lads began to disperse, making way for something more brainy, or ambitious and less concerned with cool. Bands who came across as individual oddbods,such as Foals, Alt-J, and Wild Beasts and Glass Animals,were actually bound together, often by outlandish, or tall-pitched vocals,intuition-defying rhythms, multi-layered melodies and comically bizarre imagery. Much of their music was derived from math-rock (one of the nerdiest subgenres, and needless to say),and they paid tribute to the internet age by recreating the resulting information overload in sonic form.
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Source: theguardian.com