2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)

Gangpol & Mit: The 1000 Softcore Tourist People ClubGangpol & Mit: The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club (Ipecac, 3/29/11)

“The 1000 People Band Part 1”

Gangpol & Mit: “The 1000 People Band Part 1”

French animation/electronic duo Gangpol & Mit makes music for a playful cartoon world. On its newest album, the bizarrely titled The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club, G&M expands its zany video-game aesthetic with a conglomerate of textured, glimmering Tinkertoy instrumentation.

“The 1000 People Band (Part 1),” one of the album’s first “singles,” demonstrates this Mario Kart-meets-Architecture in Helsinki-meets-The Books musical collage. The rest of the album is a strange and lighthearted romp through airy and electro-classical orchestrations, drum-and-bass distortions, wandering keyboard melodies, and other oddities, using mallets, flute, harpsichord, harp, oboe, and other “standard” sounds alongside the 21st Century additions.

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