Brooklyn’s Black Gold is made up of multi-instrumentalist Than Luu and vocalist and keyboardist Eric Ronick, a pair of cool cats who’ve already earned their “high quality” credentials by touring with the backing bands of Ambulance Ltd, M.Ward, Panic At The Disco, Rachael Yamagata, The Maintain Regular, Polysics, Scissor Sisters, and Jaguar Love. As their very own band, the pair often known as Black Gold are identified for turning out slickly produced, driving electronica-tinged fashionable dance pop music.
The band has a big selection of musical inspirations from all eras of rock n roll music. “No type or style is off limits. We get an actual kick out of taking from totally different artists, totally different intervals, and placing our spin on it. In some way we ended up with one thing cohesive and that sounds, undeniably, like us,” says Ronick.
“[Black Gold’s sound is] breathlessly experimental…practically each music is a possible single begging for an prolonged dance edit,” raves “Spin” journal.
Black Gold’s debut album is 2009’s Rush. In the meantime, they’ve already had a big-selling digital dance single with “Detroit (Shark Assault Remix),” which has additionally been launched on a restricted version 7″ vinyl report (with a B-side of “The Image Present”). On Rush, you will hear cuts that invoke T-Rex, Satie, Stylish, Michael Jackson (when he was R&B), David Bowie, the Brothers Gibb, and The Band. As Ronick mentioned, no type or style is off limits to him and Luu.
“Detroit” in actual fact kicks off the Rush album. Listeners will discover electronica dance beats that move within the areas in between some soulful singing and keyboard work. Then comes “Plans & Reveries” which is a showcase of Ronick’s twin abilities of singing and keyboard (right here, piano) enjoying. Evidently Ronick is the pop-mind who is aware of find out how to write hooks and sing at an emotionally evocative degree that is a lower above the remainder of at the moment’s mediocre vocalists, whereas Luu is aware of find out how to provide the beat and spotlight the hooks with musical textures that give the music depth and endurance.
Ultimately the album will get to “What You Did” and right here it kicks into excessive gear. The beat is quick and the tasty guitars churn together with the David Rosenthal-like keyboards whilst some Stevie Marvel funk-era synths swirl like offended ocean waves within the background. This is a music of the bitterness of a person discovering his lover in mattress with one other, and Ronick’s vocals are at their perfect telling you prefer it is. Black Gold’s Rush is so distinctive in its fashionable UK pop blended with super-eclecticism that Ronick is even given a six-and-a-half minute place to shine on the piano instrumental known as “Canyon.”
Search for Black Gold to be a drive for a while to come back.
