Exceptional Single: 1

THE ACID - BASIC INSTINCT

INFECTIOUS MUSIC UK 2014
BY OSCAR NICHOLAS


Sometimes with truly great music it is impossible to pin point why it has such attraction. Under layers and layers of care there might be something that makes it exceptional but it could just as easily be a combination of everything. Everything in its right place, timed to perfection with the right amount of passion. A song that can change the pace of your heartbeat. Although perceptions of sound vary depending on the individual and their ideas of perfection, some music seems to stand above. To have a piece of sound that provokes such feeling is not an everyday event.


The Acid - Basic Instinct, this is one of those songs that make you want to blurt out cliches about the hairs on your neck and the unsteadiness of your heartbeat. The first encounter with Basic Instinct is an experience, heightened by the music video from Dugan O'Neal (available at Nowness).

Consisting of Brighton based Adam Freeland, Californian artist Steve Nalepa and Australian producer Ry X. The Acid aim to make genre-less music. The combination of acoustic guitar, electronic hits and noisy distorted peaks build tension beautifully. All toped by soothing vocals that haunt your ears and layer into harmonies that eventually explode with the screams of "I'm tired of your warning". It then turns into a haze and fades out. 

The music video was created especially for their first track and features LA dance group WIFE. The slow-motion, out of this world movement and visual imagery compliments the music perfectly. 

The Acid's self titled, debut EP is to be released 14th April.

Rating: 10