Multiple Artists - We We We

May 4, 2018 - Me Me Me

WE WE WE is an album without self-contained ambition. Instead, the many connected artists within the community have thrown together a hodgepodge of otherwise unfound tracks to help out some people. And each other. The Help for Refugees charity receives all profits from this latest ME ME ME production. Along with its publicly displayed goodheartedness, it’s a great opportunity for a budding producers. The chance to catalog your name next to any of these underground heroes that I won’t be talking about such as ASOK, Ian Blevins, Dos Attack, and Man Power a.k.a. Geoff Kirkwood, the head of Me Me Me Records is a great step. 

It would be easy and illuminating for me to unpack the entirety of this generous album. However, We Hate Music has taken particular interest in the development of Elliot Adamson and Ben Caldwell, whose nascence in the electronic scene recall to us that amorphous splendor which so many of our interns are on the cusp of loosing as they realize that the control they’ve felt over much of their lives is actually the control we have over much of their lives. 

Adamson invites a strange sense of communion into his eight minute track ‘Found’. With what sounds like anthropomorphic mouse chatter and lightly aggressed synth ascensions something cartoonishly troublesome emerges. A child-friendly take on violence that has pushed charities such as the Help for Refugees into a central figure of world relief efforts. ‘Found’ is playful in a composition that could easily lean thematically mawkish. 

Separated by three noteworthy but un-noted tracks, Ben Caldwell’s ‘Ping Pong’ is an atmospheric samba. If anything, the precursor to violence and the peace within during inhabit this lulling ginger clubber. Caldwell manages a deft rhythmic melody, the force of which is in its ability to change momentum. A paring outro midway through comes back full force only to again, in its final moments, depart to an analog, insinuating the song’s own beginning all over again. It’s a clever series of moves on Caldwell’s part, and we’re excited to see what’s to come. ⛰️