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  • Genre:

    Rock

  • Label:

    Crime on the Moon

  • Reviewed:

    February 10, 2017

Cold Beat continue to tackle the tech bubble and human emotions on their latest song

The Bay Area musician Hannah Lew (of Grass Widow) makes music that foregrounds human emotion amidst the specter of the booming tech bubble in the area. (She alluded to it on the first two Cold Beat albums, Over Me and Into the Air.) “62 Moons,” the first single off Cold Beat’s third album, Chaos by Invitation, cover similar terrain, battling technological anxiety with retro synths. Lew’s voice is both warm and distant as she sings about her love being taken for granted, using Saturn’s 62 moons as a potent metaphor (“You have 62 moons/And you pull them to you”). The longing in Lew’s voice mixed with the playfulness of the toy synth give “62 Moons” the introspection and intimacy of a bedroom pop project. This song recalls a headspace where the cosmos and machines conjure nostalgic, sci-fi fantasy rather than today’s displacement and automation.