A new decade has dawned and Flashion Forward is ready to prognosticate as we gaze at the strange and colorful aesthetic scape fashion and music create when they collide. Let’s frolic about the closets of our fanciest, freshest interviewees and find out if their musical and sartorial styles sing in harmony or clash discordantly.
Today we’re synchronizing with Telepathe.
Telepathe, a startlingly unique avant-garde electro act from Brooklyn, is way ahead of all of us–who better to turn to for thoughts and advice on what to expect in the coming year? Former math-rockers who decided to join forces and ditch all of the boring conventions that can stymie experimentation busted open their doors of expression and now produce the kind of pop that can send anyone into trance. They pour “layers and layers of sound, with girlish vocals woven in as yet another rhythmic element” onto the swooning, sweaty masses, proving that basic arithmetic does add up to a solid foundation one can use for fun things later in life.
Terrifyingly trendy to boot, sometimes it’s hard not to fall under the spell of their “improvised guitar gusts, woodsy chirps, wraith-like Björkian harmonies and powerfully jabbed drums into minimalist baroque.” You’ll be put into the same sort of Pabst-drinking, bad parka-wearing sparkly fog in which we find ourselves wearing purple jeans without a trace of irony.
Best leave it to the experts though. Instead, the rest of us can learn from their rather outré approach to crisis management. Below, check out how Telepathe plans to save us all from ourselves, bears and quicksand.
TOPICS: Flashion Forward, Kathleen Willcox