Cinderpop
What looks simple probably isn't
So this German kid puts some math together on an asteroid headed for a collision with Earth and essentially disproves NASA’s own math about the event in the process, effectively raising the chances of being hit by it from 1 in 45,000 to 1 in 450. And he just whipped it up as a science fair project. You know, just your vinegar-and-soda volcano type stuff. Put a few numbers together, and voilà: the best scientific minds in the U.S. get served.
I realise there’s more to it than that, but you have to admit, given the context with the 13 year old, it just makes the whole thing look so damn simple. For all I know it is, and that’s just what makes the kid so bloody brilliant: making it look simple.
Making it look simple is the trademark of a good band as well, and Vancouver’s Cinderpop have that vibe going for them with Blonder, a vibrant, charming, and ultimately afflicted song, charged with reverb doting guitar jangles which create an effervescent moment of absolute pop wonder. Indeed, there is a spacey dreaminess which binds the effortless melody into being, channelled through Kevan Ellis’s breathy vocals, but the song is anything but simple, its intricate harmonies sliding into place, propping each other up, with nothing out of place and nothing missing. It’s as pure a pop rock song you’ll hear all year, and that’s the least condescending statement possible.
MP3: Cinderpop - Blonder
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