My Body is a new band to come out of Brooklyn’s bustling music scene. Challenging the status quo of electronic-alternative music, My Body works to inject their sound with the effervescent quality that reminds us of the ephemeral nature of youth, dreams, and love similar to their contemporaries Phantogram, Purity Ring, and Braids. Their indie sensibility brings a gossamery sheen to the subgenre that is more than welcome and opens up the floor to countless possibilities in the future ahead.
With such a lush array of sounds to pull from, their music feels custom made for the remix and dance music crowd especially considering how unique and emotive many of their cues are. Pete Fonda’s take on “Explode,” for example, aims for supernal, celestial feels whereas the original is much more in line with a pop-electro/80’s identity. Fonda’s remix, which brings to mind work from other atmospheric house artists such as John Talabot or Karl x Johan, is the winding, loopy experience one would expect when they take ecstasy: it’s thumping like a baseball bat on an oil drum, it’s ambient like a starry landscape, and it works beyond measure as an exercise in capturing what it feels like to live through a state of lucid dreaming.
Be sure to follow My Body on Facebook and download Pete Fonda’s remix of “Explode” below.
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