[Pitchfork] Restiform Bodies : "Bobby Trendy Addendum"

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Don't hold me to this, but this new track from anticon oddities Restiform Bodies is about modern spoiled American rich-twit privilege. I think. Evocative, sometimes inventive phrases jump out-- "Fendi bag and an icy chalice," "Pony every birthday regardless of our behavior," "Appetites lashed to the hood of the Bentley"-- and even the parts that are hard to follow, pauseless strings of ideas that keep canceling out each preceding phrase at a rate of something like two per second, are more attention-grabbing than bewildering. But if they connect to each other in any distinctly narrative way, it's kind of hard to figure out exactly how. That could be part of the appeal, or at least whatever appeal there is that doesn't otherwise rely on the beat-- a constantly-mutating slab of yowling, pounding synthesized clamor that does a good enough job invoking the kind of ugliness you'd want from an abstract rap track about moneyed arrogance. That super-tongue-in-cheek 1980s Euro-pop chorus is crazier still.