Telepathe “In Your Line”
A vertiginous cyclone of spaced-out, de-constructed futuro-urban noise, Telepathe’s “In Your Line” juggles tribal percussion clatter, ambient tones and ghost-like moans to manifest the nightmarish limbo of one’s unwanted single status, the conjoined vocal presence of members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais flickering in and out of the oddly attractive sonic palette, just like all the other musical elements served, to toss off disjointed couplets describing their lonesome blues.
Quick to admit fault in the romance’s dissolution, the girls’ confess to only offering “half my time” and scurrying off when boyfriend got too close. But everyone knows that playing “hard-to-get” doesn’t work forever, and when he finally gets fed up with the games and disappears for good, the weight of what has been lost hits hard.
Now they spend their nights tossing and turning in cold beds with nary a satisfying wink, and their days awaiting for a return that feels more and more unlikely to happen as season after season pass on, a horrendous existence attractively illustrated via the avant-garde sculptings of producer/ TV On The Radio member David Sitek.
From Telepathe’s newly released debut full-length, Dance Mother.
DL: “In Your Line” (alt)
I’m always struck by absolutely unremarkable and amateur Telepathé sound. The emperor has no ears.