The Confederation aren’t here to satiate your radio rock needs. Look towards industry plants for that. This is a band that is making a blend of all the genres they enjoy. Luckily, we’re fortunate enough to receive it as a collection. If you haven’t heard of the collective till now, you’re in for a treat. Why try one piece of chocolate when you can have the dessert in your hand? This one is their debut album release, called Hypergravity.
When that sonic dissonance opens the album itself, you’re ready to go. Bad Wiring is the first track you listen to, an aggravated pop-rock kicker. It has the level of thrill to chuck out your old fuse and bank on something better. The chord progressions are addictive and memorable, yet you know that there’s something in the groove that is unique to them.
You Do You (I’ll Do Me) comes in like a swinging 70s soul funk number. The accents with the instruments are brilliant, adding a lot of stylish flair leading to the chorus as well. The Confederation are clearly harbingers of music that speaks with soul and keeps instrumental brilliance at the forefront of the tracks.
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As much as the vocals and lyrics elevate the mix, the instrumental becomes the core groove for you to bop your head to. The next one is more of an observation than anything else. People Are Happy On Swings opens as an acoustic number that packs in the swing as a foot-tapping number. The chords have a nice flamenco accent to it that appears especially in transitions between the verse sections.
Collectives usually slack off towards the middle of albums as a collection of music they have made. The Confederation keeps only their choicest numbers in this catalogue, each diverse enough to be a different subgenre. Chandelier is as much a conversation as any journey – with different transitions and pockets bouncing out through the silence. I loved the kind of effects this song had, especially the filter on the vocals that makes it phase between headphone cans. Who Invented Mondays? transitions almost to a kind of industrial pop rock aesthetic.
The undertones of serious commentary that rest between the lines are rich. It doesn’t talk about pop that wants you to party and become a door to escapism. This is music that can have the nuanced balance of both, with a class that indie bands don’t particularly focus on in this stage of their beginning.
Through 13 tracks, you are thrown into a digital spectrum that has every range of frequency and style in it. The Confederation is the collective you don’t ever worry about being replaced by AI. This is what it sounds like to be bold, creative and unapologetically human. Welcome to the collective:
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