Confidence Man

One Liner: Techno stuff with tons of top end sounds and not enough bass for me

Wikipedia Genre: electropop
Home: Brisbane, Australia

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 11
Day: Friday
Both Weekends.

Thoughts:  When the first 30 seconds of the band makes you sigh very loudly at your desk, you know you are in for a real treat.  It is house music, I think.  Never entirely sure how to parse the different genres of EDM, but it is also deeply annoying to me.  This is the kind of techno where it is really fast, like too fast to comfortably dance to it unless you are one of those scary tweakers with the little lights on the ends of your fingers, and a lady sings inane crap over the top the whole time.  I was really hoping this band name was going to lead me to something cool.  Not so much.

I know I should write this stuff myself, but the Wikipedia entry here is really just so weird that I feel like you need it: "The band was formed in 2016. The members had met on the Brisbane music scene, and had been in other bands including: The Belligerents, Moses Gunn Collective and The Jungle Giants, and use pseudonyms ....  They started writing dance songs together, initially as a "kind of joke", but eventually reali[z]ed the material was worth pursuing.  Planet and Bones provide vocals and dancing while Goodchild and McGuffie, who appear as masked figures, play keyboards and drums." Those are some special pseudonyms for sure.

3 albums - 2018's Confident Music for Confident People, 2022's Tilt, and 2024's 3AM (La La La).  Their top streamers are not actually their songs, they are two tracks by DJ Seinfeld with these guys on the track.  But a 2019 single called "Does It Make You Feel Good" is the top streamer that is just them.  And to be honest, it is much better than the first six tracks on their Spotify Popular list.  15.6 million streams.

Not quite as frenetic as more popular tunes, although it still doesn't do much for me.  I think when I want the techno music I want more bass and heft than this more top-end-heavy stuff that sounds like half of it is just high hats.  " I CAN'T LOSE YOU" is from the new disc and has 5.2 million streams.

Naked people in a helicopter is pretty fun.  But man, that song is terrible.  All the worst parts of that Barbie Girl song sped up and repeated over and over.  I don't know if she is Planet or Bones, but she is brave to hang half-way out of that chopper with her boobs flopping around.  "Holiday" has 10.4 million streams.

Oh, a hot air balloon this time.  They need to do that on stage in the Tito's Tent and burn that sucker down.  That song is maybe better than the last one, but still relatively annoying for me.

I will let other folks enjoy the sounds of these weirdos.