(Kitsuné/Sony Red)There’s more than a tip of the time capsule band approximately Mothxr. A Brooklyn quartet with a band name tweaked for online searchability,and a debut delivering the kind of robotic, downbeat R&B that has felt inescapable over the past few years, and they provide a decent snapshot of alternative pop in 2016. But there’s a freshness too amid the overfamiliar whiff of musical zeitgeist. Their weepy bumpn’grind may be a little too indebted to the Weeknd,and their lyrics labour the mood of sexual menace, but there’s genuine drama and some terrific hooks. Touch combines sinuous guitar lines with synthy drops; the title track has some of the languid mournfulness of Julian Casablancas’s best work.
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Source: theguardian.com