Courtship Ritual - Wild Like Us by GODMODE published on 2013-04-08T11:27:07Z cover art: http://entergodmode.com/cr/Courtship-Ritual-Cover-V2.jpg press inquiries: nbs at entergodmode dot com Grey Foxes, Beach Days Introducing Courtship Ritual By Nick Sylvester For being around less than six months, Brooklyn's Courtship Ritual have quite a bit of confidence. The arrangements are deliberate, skeletal: a drum machine, a synthesizer or guitar loop, a vocal melody. That's it usually. They commit to every single element. You hear it all. But you also hear the space that acts less confident would fill up. The only other band I know who's doing this as well are the XX, but I doubt they're much fun at the bowling alley. If the synthesizer and guitar playing on "Wild Like Us" reminds me of mid Cocteaus, the synth programming and sense of deliberate imprecision of "Biesenbach on the Beach (Klaus)" has a kiss of Portishead--another natural resource this country has been lacking. Speaking of Klaus Biesenbach: Yes, the song is inspired by a chance sighting of MoMA PS1's director on a beach in Brooklyn. He approached the beach, surveyed the surroundings. He stripped, dove into the ocean, re-emerged, walked back to land, put his clothes on, and quickly went away. Grey fox. Beach day. Courtship Ritual are Basque and Monica Salazar. Both these songs were recorded by Colin Alexander late last year. I did some slight remixing and drum programming. Fresh off that new Deerhunter record, Joe Lambert did the mastering in DUMBO. "Wild Like Us" is available digitally worldwide, and as a limited edition red tint cassette on GODMODE. COURTSHIP RITUAL Wild Like Us b/w Biesenbach on the Beach (Klaus) GODMODE CAT NO GM029 2013 Genre Pop
