Dirty Bird's "Zordland" Analyzes The Notional Side Of Music

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Dirty Bird Malware 

André 3000 had a luminous frame of mind about listening to instrumentals during his sit-down with Rick Rubin on the Broken Record podcast. At times, a barrage of lyrics left little room for one's own thoughts, feelings or interpretations. That point has always stuck with me and greatly manifested in the recent months regarding what I've been listening to. And, as if  I was subconsciously searching for it, Dirty Bird's "Zordland" crossed my timeline and made clear why that space to think during a song can be so important.

The undeviating, mostly instrumental record in the latter half of "Malware's" tracklist smooths the skin and relaxes the nerves. Dirty Bird's glitzy, home shopping keyboard riff and 80's spandex drum pattern intro finance the Adult Swim-like internet qualities of the music. The changes in that upbeat riff to chords with a naiveté in their sound by remixed baby heartbeat drums sucker punch with how hard they hit. The production, you would think, would clash with the steamy vocals sample. But it doesn't. It merely adds to "Zordland's" unbuttoning tone to feel and stimulate in the manner of an infomercial for Anime intros and outros, as if the alluring beat prompts to call and buy one now.

Dirty Bird's music here isn't touched by realism. Instead, it is shaped by its blue-sky approach to sampling, drum patterns, chords and how notional the sound is together. And that larger point could be applied to "Malware" as a whole.

Listen to "Zordland"/ "Malware" below.

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