Back To The Future is the kind of song that makes it very clear what it is, almost instantly. With taut bass, crisp percussion and cheeky vocals, the song clearly leverages a mixture of late-70s / early-80s punk-funk sound to arrive at a kitchen-sink style of avant-pop.
In short, there is a lot going on here — brass kicks, vocals suddenly harmonise en masse, drums slip in and out of staccato rhythms and a weird experimental jazz sections suddenly turns up halfway through. All of this in a song that doesn’t even make it to the three-minute mark.
Arthur Moon is the musical Monica of Lora-Faye Åshuvud, a queer artist and multi-instrumentalist from New York. Back To The Future is “a song about what it might mean to be aware of your body as it moves through space and time, so you can help make the future an answer to the past”.
Clear? Clear.