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The Fading Collection
12+ albums
trip-hopelectronicdarkwavepsychedelic3
about
One of life’s overarching themes is the idea of duality. The yin, the yang, Adam and Eve, the double helix, over and under, up, down…the pattern is clear. Fading Collection fit together in the same way, a synchronous blend of two distinct parts. Sarah McGuinn’s gigantic voice and producer/arranger Matt Frickelton's inspired beatology create twin strands of harmonic resonance; he is the flash and the dazzle, his banks of machines pushing out crashing waves of chaotic energy, while she is the light and the heart, her muscular alto creating weight and melodic structure. Their music follows the trip-hop meld of the diva and the digital, with touches of Goldfrapp and the dynamic restlessness of DJ Shadow and Lamb. But those are barely starting points. What they do isn’t so easily categorized, with songs that alternate between moody ups and ecstatic downs, slippery and ephemeral, spicy and cool, alive with the crackling charge generated by a pair of uncommon musicians. Four years have gone by since their last collaboration, 2005’s Supertron, but Fading Collection is dormant no longer. Currently in the process of completing their next full-length record Neutron, the duo has in the meantime produced an EP, Attakk. Acting as contrast to Neutron’s chillier vibe, these five tracks are stripped down and direct, as McGuinn and Frickelton depend on muscle memory to whip rough-hewn hunks of sound into sub-four-minute bursts of quick, dirty, industrialized pop. The approach results in som
