Brown Bread & Von Holt – Body Combat 7.6

                Brown Bread & Von Holt have created a delightfully dreamy EP. There’s nothing particularly intense on here. I have no idea who Von Holt is, but Brown Bread is someone I’ve covered before. Her music generally tends to be a little on the spacey side. With “Body Combat” there’s a bit more in the way of beats than what Brown Bread normally does, but it isn’t a dramatic shift. 

                The vocals, Brown Bread’s far away sound, is ever present. Beats try to keep the whole thing ground in reality. For the more part they fail, though on the relatively aggressive opener “Why are you so damn agreeable?” they come close to marking a close approximation of time. Mind you, aggressive by Brown Bread’s standards is slightly more volume. Normally you hear the whole thing after a series of filters, meant to bring you further away from the original sound.

                I enjoy hearing some of her old tracks on here, like the swimmingly wonderful song “Where were you last night?” which sort of piles up on top of itself. Everything is so refreshingly simple on this track. Glad to see she included this old track on the EP, and it sounds as if nothing has changed about it. That makes me extremely happy. 

                Sometimes you simply need to strip away music to its barest basics. Electronic music tends to lose sight of that idea, oftentimes layering loops over loops into infinity. There’s something charming about ‘Body Combat’ how it manages to be such naked music.