![]() Roll (Burbank Funk) is one of their punchiest tracks yet, with wunderkind guitarist Lacy taking a lead vocal, and rhythms to the fore. ![]() Still: it’s getting much easier to explain the Internet to those who find the outfit’s stealthy immanence unmemorable. This is a breakout album that never thrusts itself into the limelight. The horizontal aspect of the Internet’s songs endures on Hive Mind: theirs is a funk that doesn’t exactly dance on podiums. If they are approaching the mainstream, it’s not entirely at the cost of their feather-light, barely there writing style. The Internet’s appetite for good times – and for funk – is increasing. Now, the year after most of the Internet’s members issued solo projects, Hive Mind – their mainstream-facing fourth outing – offers up another set of come-hither sounds whose confidence has taken another leap. Unexpectedly, she rapped on Fin: another facet to her shine. All deal with chemistry and lust, and throughout, Bennett’s breathy vocals bring to mind an Aaliyah or Janet Jackson for the 21st century. The Internet’s understated setup has increased in traction across three incrementally more accomplished albums, and one more electronic, trap-laden Bennett solo outing, Fin (2017). Everything she does is gradual, off-centre, impressionistic. The Internet sound as though they’ve been bolstered, rather than diminished by their solo projectsīennett hasn’t yet become a household name like Ocean, but going obviously supernova is, perhaps, not her style. ![]() Listening to Ego Death, this lineup’s last album, and Hive Mind, their new one, this Internet feels like a configuration where the jams flow intuitively. ![]() Currently, they are five: Bennett, fellow producer and keyboard player Matt Martians, guitarist Steve Lacy, rapping bassist Patrick Paige II and drummer Christopher Smith. It’s a perverse choice of name, given the requirements of search engine optimisation, but apt enough for a sprawling and eclectic ensemble of musicians whose lineup contracts and expands. No longer a precocious stripling, she is now the force at the centre of a collective known as the Internet. Finally, and perhaps most slinkily of all, the planets align for Syd. ![]()
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