The composer of this piece of music lives by the doctrine “always keep a Dictaphone with you. You never know what’s around the corner that could inspire”. If, as his PR claims “some of his best productions have been influenced listening to someone whistling randomly at the cash point”, we can only hope that The Chase was inspired by a particular off day walking around town. Maybe there were road works by the cash point. Maybe there was a mugging. Either scenario doesn’t quite excuse this.
For a song that’s meant to be about “living on the edge and keeping one step ahead”, we are left with something incredibly boring. All the essential boxes are ticked: we get the chunky synths, a bass-line as loud as God, the relentlessly frantic drumming, however when even bands like Pendulum can elicit a reaction (be it rage or vomiting), this leaves creates nothing but ambivalence.
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Maybe it’s the three second bubbling riff that repeats for the duration of the song with the persistence of a migraine. Maybe it’s the fact that the chorus involves one note. Personally, I’d isolate the moment when Trufix claims he’s “taking the rave up a gear”: a line even Jeremy form Peep Show wouldn’t disgrace his musical compositions with. Either way, this is awfulness of the highest order.
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