Bubble Tea and Cigarettes' Latest Release 'French Movie' Blends Lo-Fi, Shoegaze and Retro-Futurism
- Freddie McKee
- Mar 24, 2023
- 1 min read
Bubble Tea and Cigarettes push the modern agenda with their latest release, ‘French Movie.’ The track sits in lo-fi and builds on a shoegaze foundation. The keys warble and rise in the back. Chimes and bells billow overhead. The drums smack and tap, they don't bang and crash. The world is soft, sepia, classy. The vocals are cotton. They never turn to anger to find the message, instead, they turn within themselves. The light dims, the candles flicker. The vocal is the centre of everything.
‘French Movie’ revolves around a flow. It slides one way with the vocal and the instrumental pulls it back. This movement is deeper than beat, deeper than melody. It exists outside the music, and can only come from a song as pure as this. Bubble Tea and Cigarettes have found their sound and they have mastered it. It’s retro-futurism with a pinch of indie and heaping teaspoons of lo-fi. It’s bold, it's wondrous. It’s as engaging and romantic as that old ‘French Movie.’
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