In Real Life
Sometimes music appears in front of you and it seems to have come from nowhere. Like, it definitely slaps but you can’t quite plot how it got to be. Meth Math fit that description.
So me being a mildly anal sort, I started looking into where it came from. I mean, it’s arguable that a hack should probably do the bare minimum of research before writing about music but frankly, most music isn’t that good, most musicians are quite boring, and I’m mostly too busy. Anyroads.
There’s not a great deal online about them, but there is a number of mentions of
Rosa Pistola. Who
looks cool as fuck, queerly leers in her videos, and is a banging DJ.
Which in turn led me to
riobamba,
who is also cool as the literal fuck.
And in turn led me to hitting up a friend in Mexico City, who hit me with
a fuckload of weird electronic stuff coming out of Mexico City (check out
here). And then wrote a
banging article on latinx goth music.
Anyway, so to the point — not only are Meth Math banging, they’ve also pushed me into a world of latinx music. But. Having spent a bunch of time listening to Rosa Pistola for the reggaeton vibes and latinx electronic music, I’m still not entirely sure where Meth Math come from. It’s got the reggaeton beat, and a kind of witch house vibe, and vocals pitched way up, and
it smells like listening to music on ketamine, and an absolutely pornographic amount of reverb. Probably the best quote I could find from the horse’s mouth: “Even though you can hear the reggaetón, it is too sad to fulfill the reggaetón lifestyle. Or we could be fulfilling the sad part of the reggaetón lifestyle? Bellakos get sad too you know” (from
Flaunt magazine).
So I’m settling on the idea that they’re
a kind of goth take on reggaeton with elements of fucked-up electronica. Except they’re not as shit as most electronica. And it sounds like a k-hole. Also they’ve done a honest-to-goodness decent cover of
Britney Spears.
And they list
Vengaboys in their influences. My point being they’re clearly actually
into actual dancing music rather than being sniffy cod-ironic IDM bellends. And it shows. Because they bang.
This is a short EP at barely over ten minutes. And this is the best new-to-me thing I’ve heard all year. Dunno what more I can say to make you listen to this innit.
-Kev Nickells-
Sometimes music appears in front of you and it seems to have come from nowhere. Like, it definitely slaps but you can’t quite plot how it got to be. Meth Math fit that description.
