Mobile Steve and the Grand Slams’ “Landing” is the Sound of Skullduggery Afoot in a Cybernetic Future

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Mobile Steve and the Grand Slam, image courtesy the artists

The curiously named Mobile Steve and the Grand Slams offer us its new single “Landing.” The analog electronic high pitched bubbling, the distorted low end synth and circular drum figure that runs in the first half of the song sounds like an update on the theme music for the 1967 limited series television show The Prisoner. But then the song goes in a direction more abstract with throbbing sounds like a jet engine of a craft gone sinister and the engine of a transport that is taking us to some clandestine rendezvous where we’ll be asked like Snake Plisskin in Escape From New York to do some daring rescue mission with little reward for the risk. If this is meant to convey a landing as the title suggests, it’s one done after dark and in a secret location. Listen to “Landing” on YouTube and follow Mobile Steve and the Grand Slams at the links below.

facebook.com/msatgs
instagram.com/mobilestevethegrand

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