What's The Story?
Sonny Moore, known better these days as Skrillex, is the former frontman of the hardcore post-rock outfit From First To Last. Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites is the title track from his second electronic effort.
Who's To Blame?
deadmau5 spends more time on Facebook than I do, and in between pictures of his gear, Minecraft, and his cat, he occasionally posts a snap of his fellow producer friends.
Why ♥ It?
Primer: this is dubstep. Not for the electronic moderate. I only dabble myself, but I've seen people who know a slew more about good music than I try and figure out what exactly is up with this genre to no success. A matter of preference, to say the least.
This song, specifically, is all about dynamic. The name alone suggests it; mental images are conjured of Tinkerbell fighting Gollum. Skrillex takes this a dubstep further, infusing this whole idea right into the tune itself. The intro sounds much more like the former, riding a sunny synth line until about 0:40. This is where the elevator to hell drops in an instant, and the dirtiest of the dirty beats emerges. What Skrillex does here that's so appealing, though, is alternate from monster to sprite. Every fourth bar (give or take) has the main sunny synth line act as a transition, contrasted against three bars of grime. The listener jumps out of this cycle for a break back to sunshine & lollipops mid-song (1:40 or so), before another deluge of intensity, followed by a casually tapering outro on the synth again.
The WUB WUB WUB of dubstep is to electronic what the scream and growl are to hard rock: not everyone will love it, and that's legitimate. Either way, this creative song is a great place to dip feet in the water rather than just jumping right in.
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