Hinterland isn’t just a surprisingly good detective drama set in Aberystwyth, it’s also the title of the fourth single of East India Youth’s debut album ‘Total Strife Forever’. Which, if you’ve been following music news or reading my incessant barrage of posts, you’ll know was recently announced as a nominee for the Mercury Music Prize. They were even banging on about it on Sunday Brunch this weekend. I was hungover. Don’t judge me. Anyway, what better time to release your next single than very shortly after an announcement like that?
Though, in all fairness that is a particularly cynical view. Especially seeing as how Hinterland is far from your run of the mill single, what with it being over six minutes long and entirely instrumental. It’s a slow building track that steadily rises from a very subdued electronic soundscape of repeating rhythmic patterns before it gives itself a countdown to lift off and kicks into an expanding kraut-rave. It’s kind of how it might sound if you gave a computer MDMA and could hear its insides dealing with the come up before it peaks and hits a kind eye of the storm euphoria.
It’s a cracking single, and it stands leaps and bounds apart from the rest of the pack this week. The album is a worthy nominee of the Mercury Prize too, so have yourself a listen to this damn fine bit of electronica then go and check out an album that’s deserving of your attention. Especially if you like the idea of some kind of James Blake, Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, and Mogwai on Rave Tapes crossover.
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