Methyl Orange Painted Cinematic Synaesthesia Across the Alt-Electronica Cosmos with Back from the Future
Methyl Orange launched synaptic fireworks with Back from the Future, an instrumental feat from the new LP, Lost for Words. Part electronica score, part sonic TARDIS, the orchestration delivers a blaze of cinematic synaesthesia that paints the cosmos through your rhythmic pulses. Grandeur radiates from the production as it blurs the lines between future-forward propulsion and electronica nostalgia, giving a near War of the Worlds charge before it swerves into retrowave EBM territory. There’s a rare alchemy at work here: put Back from the Future on in a room packed with ravers raised on the scintillation of 80s synthetics, and you’ll have a frenzy; play it alone and you’ll lock into the cultivated approach of the Manchester-based artist, who has an uncanny knack for painting mechanised worlds that stretch far beyond the banality of our own. Methyl Orange has continued to prove their status as one of the city’s most forward-thinking sonic architects, hitting over 35k streams this year alone and catching the ears of radio stations worldwide. Five albums deep in just eight years, Methyl Orange has created a discography that feels like an archive of undiscovered TV and film themes, and Lost for Words stands as the most […] The post Methyl Orange Painted Cinematic Synaesthesia Across the Alt-Electronica Cosmos with Back from the Future appeared first on A&R Factory.

Methyl Orange launched synaptic fireworks with Back from the Future, an instrumental feat from the new LP, Lost for Words. Part electronica score, part sonic TARDIS, the orchestration delivers a blaze of cinematic synaesthesia that paints the cosmos through your rhythmic pulses. Grandeur radiates from the production as it blurs the lines between future-forward propulsion and electronica nostalgia, giving a near War of the Worlds charge before it swerves into retrowave EBM territory. There’s a rare alchemy at work here: put Back from the Future on in a room packed with ravers raised on the scintillation of 80s synthetics, and you’ll have a frenzy; play it alone and you’ll lock into the cultivated approach of the Manchester-based artist, who has an uncanny knack for painting mechanised worlds that stretch far beyond the banality of our own. Methyl Orange has continued to prove their status as one of the city’s most forward-thinking sonic architects, hitting over 35k streams this year alone and catching the ears of radio stations worldwide. Five albums deep in just eight years, Methyl Orange has created a discography that feels like an archive of undiscovered TV and film themes, and Lost for Words stands as the most […]
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