fractions – “Higher”
We’re total suckers for late-2000s blog-house. That brief window from 2006 to 2009 when every indie band was mashing sharp guitars into four-to-the-floor synth basslines is a notoriously hard vibe to pull off today without sounding like cheap parody. Most modern attempts feel less like a real sound and more like an accent tag on a playlist. If your old iPod Nano was packed with Cut Copy’s In Ghost Colours and the first Friendly Fires record, the debut album from Edinburgh outfit fractions is going to hit you like pure muscle memory. Dropped back on October 23rd, the record’s lead single “Higher” carries that exact high-BPM drive, featuring choruses built specifically for a crowded 1:00 AM basement dance party. Crucially, Fractions sounds like a live band sweating it out in a room together rather than someone tweaking software patches alone. There’s a raw, physical momentum to “Higher” that keeps the[...]