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“Like smoke in a still, cold night sky, Human Noise float and twist around your head, catching the light but impossible to grab hold of. It’s got its own physics, its own laws, and it demands you bend to it, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes you. Brilliant and baffling, dense yet danceable, there are […]
“This track opens Human Noise’s excellent ‘Glitching Colour’ album, and is just one piece of an intricate puzzle made of intelligent, twitching songs in unusual time signatures, a one-band experiment to do away with four-four songwriting. If you’ve ever complained that all music sounds the same these days, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is and buy this record 🧑🔬”
“Human Noise have been releasing complicated new tracks as easily as breathing over the last few months. Each one has been excellent, but each one has also been a bit of an intellectual challenge – mainly on account of their cheerful messing about with time signatures, most often somewhere in the fives and sevens. Hearing […]
“Part of their ongoing experiments to make oddball time signatures not merely accessible but instant and instinctive, Magnolia feels both jarringly wrong but comfortably, gloriously right all at the same time 🤪”
“It’s a sign of the brains at work in Human Noise that they can take the world’s most annoying time signature and not only give it groove, but downright menace. Off-kilter, but absolutely bang on target 🎯”
“Human Noise swerve, sometimes without warning, between Velvets-y chugging menace and full-bore plot-losing. There is a massive distance between each end of its own spectrum, but it’s all constructed so well it never seems jarring. This is a precisely constructed set of occasionally crazed songs, songs to trigger the firing of synapses or the dancing […]
“Watching Human Noise is like staring at a cathedral – some parts are there to make your brain work, but some are there just to pummel your senses into a puddle of goo. A set so solid and grand it should come with blueprints.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released […]
Throbbing with menace in the verse, but exploding into ramshackle joy in the chorus, Human Noise’s latest chugs and thrums like an engine. Bookended by a no-nonsense start and a whiplash ending this is smart songwriting, chock full of musical flourishes and sharply observed scenes. Great stuff.
After a swift costume change into a new name, the artist formerly known as Boydos returns as Human Noise, and brings this jagged little thrill along for good measure. A hair over two minutes long, it’s wired to the rafters the whole way through, with its tense muscles and clenched jaws hinting at a particularly […]