Collide

Beneath The Skin (Cargo)
by Angela Dauthi

Finding the right combination of electric and human music is a difficult thing. Either the voice is dominant, and the rest of the music sounds like an elaborate beatbox, or the music dominates and makes the voice sound insignificant and out of place. Luckily, there are a few bands out there who know what they’re doing, and Collide is one of them. A duo from LA, Collide creates a sound that is at once mysterious and obvious. With kaRIN’s voice sailing and soaring above us, we feel the rocky earth in Statik’s cyber-industrial sonic foundations. Imagine Cocteau Twins remixed by Front Line Assembly. Or a blooming flower laid on broken glass.