Formed out of the NYC scene that also produced Animal Collective, Black Dice and Excepter; Gang Gang Dance have followed a more dance orientated sound, whilst being open to the massive variety of sounds available to a true 21st century group. Started as an improv collective, and honing their sound through 4 albums, each one more focused than the last. Sounding somewhere between songwriting and loose dance jams. In fact much interesting music has come from the glut of improv/noise acts at the start of the decade, finding an individual voice through experimentation, as acts like GGD, Sunburned, Wolf Eyes, Religious Knives are outed as goths, industrial rockers, ravers, hippies etc...
Unlike the previous generation of groups who pretended the last 15 years of electronic and hip hop music hadn't happened, GGD throw themselves into rhythms from techno, dub, DFA and the kind of cut and pasted forth world landscape of David Byrne/Brian Eno, Sublime frequency axis.
Vocally, Liz Bougentsos channels the spirits of Sinead O'Connor, Kate Bush and Siousxie, with wordless, lost in music mystery that was shied away from in the 1990's. GGD incorporate grime MC Tinchy Strider into their vision with 'Princes', which coincided with the MC's chart success in the UK, the only other US act who have acknowledged grime that I can think of is a Dizzee appearance on a UGK record. Other highlights include Blue Nile, a melange of MBV synths and DJ Shadow trip hop, and House Jam, perhaps what The Plastic Ono Band would have sounded like in the 2000's.
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