86. Static Dress - "Rouge Carpet Disaster"

And here come the youngsters. This is an album firmly of the Spotify generation, in that it takes a would shed load of contrasting influences and shoves them all in the blender. When I got into metal in the eighties it was all very linear. Pop bands were influenced by pop bands, rock bands were influenced by rock bands and metal bands were influenced by other metal bands and therefore sounded like metal bands. It is so different for this generation as streaming offers up instant access to a whole host of differing and counter-intuitive influences. Suddenly it commonplace to splice together styles and genres to create mutant varieties that bridge together countless musical worlds. 

Static Dress are at the heart of this cavortion of musical forms and “Rouge Carpet Disaster” is a mix match of electronica, emo, punk, pop and frankly anything else that they can get their mucky paws upon. It twists and turns, never taking the same structure twice. It feels like you are listening to an audio shapeshifter, continually moulding into differing entities. However at the heart of this tornado of styles is a highly creative and really rather entertaining record that is both familiar and distinctly alien. I have no idea where Generation Z are taking our music but I do know the journey is going to be a utter blast.