Photo Credit: Bec Lorrimer
LA-based duo YACHT's recent single, "I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler," should be pretty relatable to anyone feeling deeply pessimistic and depressed about our current digital surveillance state. As singer Claire L. Evans laments, not only is love just as hard to come by as ever, but we're also being dispossessed of the metadata we produce by living brokenheartedly online: "Got my broken heart—I got it sold right back to me—by an algorithmic social entity!"The original is a pretty bracing listen, but you like your dystopic aching delivered in a more cyborgian voice, Norwegian producers Rytmeklubben have just the thing for you. Their remix pushes the track even deeper into futuristic territory, with glistening synth bell patterns and a heavy jersey club bounce. As YACHT put it to THUMP via email, "Remixes are an opportunity to reveal songs hidden inside of other songs—that's always what we try to do, and it's what Rytmeklubben did. They found a minimalist banger deep inside." YACHT's I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler is out October 16th via Downtown Records.
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