Energy Whores deliver a thrilling study into modern, over-connected alienation with their new single, "Electric Friends." As the track gets underway, we're plunged into a world where lush synths, striking keys, and dense electronic beats conspire to create a sound palette as alluring as it is unnervingly intimate. It’s a slow meditation on the perversity of digital friends, the simultaneity of intimacy and emptiness in your online friendships.
Recorded entirely in Logic X and in the duo's self-owned basement studio in New York City, "Electric Friends" is a showcase of Carrie Schoenfeld and Attilio Valenti's artistic chemistry. A formally trained classical pianist and indie film/Off-Broadway producer who brings a striking sensibility to the music, Schoenfeld melds her unique cool with Valenti’s incisive guitar work on a track that is both intellectually stimulating and rhythmically intoxicating. The duo’s distinctive aesthetic, a brazen combination of EDM, electro-pop, and experimental art-rock, shines throughout the work, turning social critique into music that forces listeners to move, even as it examines the isolation it depicts.
The stimulating pulse of "Electric Friends" is an ellipsis, sound-wise, of our own digitally-driven lives, where colourful, glossy surfaces can conceal an awful lot of emptiness. Energy Whores have been infamous for fusing political theatre and genre-jumping sounds, and this track further affirms their position as artists who make you think while making you move. "Electric Friends" has created a piece that feels unnervingly intimate yet also universally familiar because, even with a world at our fingertips, loneliness can quietly remain on the other side of the screen.
It's more than a musical composition, it's an emotion, a statement, and a way to take the core of alienation in the digital age and sail into that deep space blue.
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