Lots of people walk around with weird stuff on their heads at Glastonbury. It’s almost expected behaviour. So Joel Zimmerman - the progressive house boffin who rocks world stages with that electronic deadmau5 head on top of his real head - fits right in. They also love willful eclecticism, and that’s exactly the direction Joel has been steering his music in recently.
Last year’s epic (in scope and length) album While(1<2) saw Joel decisively walk away from making wall-to-wall bangers and stretch out into contemplative piano ballads in the style of Eric Satie, mournful and melodic electronica, squally post-rock, a banging tune called My Pet Coelacanth and a remix of Nine Inch Nails’ Survivalism. In other words it sounds like all of Glastonbury at once. And even if everyone hates his new direction(s), all he needs to do is take off the head, and he can make a clean getaway.
Lots of people walk around with weird stuff on their heads at Glastonbury. It’s almost expected behaviour. So Joel Zimmerman - the progressive house boffin who rocks world stages with that electronic deadmau5 head on top of his real head - fits right in. They also love willful eclecticism, and that’s exactly the direction Joel has been steering his music in recently.
Last year’s epic (in scope and length) album While(1<2) saw Joel decisively walk away from making wall-to-wall bangers and stretch out into contemplative piano ballads in the style of Eric Satie, mournful and melodic electronica, squally post-rock, a banging tune called My Pet Coelacanth and a remix of Nine Inch Nails’ Survivalism. In other words it sounds like all of Glastonbury at once. And even if everyone hates his new direction(s), all he needs to do is take off the head, and he can make a clean getaway.
