{"id":43851,"date":"2019-01-03T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=43851"},"modified":"2019-01-03T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:22:02","slug":"its-life-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it-the-force-remains-the-same-is-new-from-protovulcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/01\/its-life-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it-the-force-remains-the-same-is-new-from-protovulcan\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Life Jim But Not As We Know It: ‘The Force Remains The Same’ Is New From Protovulcan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protovulcan are a trio from Chicago whose music is as alien as the name of their band.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Comprising vocalist and keyboardist Will MacLean, drummer Deric Criss, and guitarist Nick Ammerman, their electronica style of music is performed live, as described by MacLean:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen people see us live, they say things like, \u201cIt\u2019s awesome to see electronica actually PLAYED<\/span>!\u201d I don\u2019t think we are really electronica, but it\u2019s nice to hear. I think it\u2019s because we play synths, but no sequencers or drum machines. Just a live band.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘The Force Remains The Same’ is an intensely electronic track, the first from their forthcoming album, ‘Life Is Twigs’, set for release on January 25, and is an excellent example to what we should expect from the remainder of the album. It contains the same hard post-industrial sounds of their previous tracks, such as ‘Waking Up Dinosaurs’, and ‘Busting Out At The Starry Roundhouse’: dark synths combined with vocoder vocals. There’s a lot in ‘The Force Remains The Same’ to make us think they’ve been inspired by Daft Punk, but then again track feels like it’s somewhere between heavy metal, and Kraftwerk as well. It’s probably safer to say they’ve taken inspiration from a wide array of sources – there’s even a vaguely tropical sound there – and melded them together to form their own style.<\/p>\n