Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
 8/10

Gang Gang Dance is surely one of the most unique and interesting bands in the world today. Shimmering like a semi-submerged sea snake stalking its prey, the Brooklyn quartet’s fourth album is best described in aloof metaphors. With a mind-bending amount of experimentation and total destruction of clichés and genres, Saint Dymphna proves that you can do almost anything and to hell what anyone else thinks of it! Gang Gang Dance is so far out of the mould that they’re up in space looking down on all of us with telescopes going “yeah, I’d rather stay up here”. Such an abstract sound and vision defies any preconceptions of both the band and their music, and this makes Saint Dymphna truly exciting to listen to as it gradually unfolds track by track. More a dance-oriented effort than their previous work, it shines with well-produced beauty and still reeks of their cult-favourite trademarks of tribal drumming, new wave synths and weirdo singing. Abstract electronic noise becomes a guitar dance track with Lizzie Bougatsos’ wonderfully unrestrained vocal taunts.