Intimatchine “I’ll Eat You Last”

09 Dec 2013 — Evelyn Malinowski

Chelsey Rae Holland and Christopher Steven Wormald form LA duo Intimatchine, whose new 5-track EP I'll Eat You Last starts with bulging keys, followed by Tarantino-esque guitar. Holland's voice, with only a taste of delay but consistently slow and deliberate, drapes over the sexy desolation conveyed in this archetypal song structure, the one that intersects sloppy fashion and 1950s love ballads. Their Facebook slogan, "Doing it without a crowd since 2008," captures the type of parody afoot in their sound. It plays with gender politics and apocalptic economic theory, but doesn't really drive to say something new, yet it does. But also not. No one is in the crowd to listen, but something will be said anyway.

One might as a result listen to the EP and envision two friends swaying to these sluggish beats, grinning slightly, performing in an empty Hollywood dive bar, with expressionless cowboys sitting around drinking Bud Light.

With other titles running around like "Do Me," "Heavenly Creatures," the EP title itself, and lyrics such as "Hey mister, are you rich? I don't care, I gotta man to take of me which is more than you can say about yourself, tough guy. You know what I wanna be? Your feminist. I know you don't believe me, well I don't believe you," participation in contemporary post-internet culture and all of its glorious irony is keenly communicated. Intimatchine cite the sounds and spoofs of groups like Tropic of Cancer, HTRK, and Hype Williams; yet they have something a little different and definitely unclassifible. It could be the introductory chanting in tracks like "Are You Rich?" and "Sea You in Hell," but more than likely is something radiating from the transcendence available through being unapproachably, darkly humourous. 

You can stream I'll Eat You Last below.