Take My Picture is the first collaborative effort from future.exboyfriend and previous BlackPlastic featured artist Bad Heather. Here together, the pair channel a sleazy, tongue-in-cheek aesthetic. _Take My Picture_is partly riffing on the sounds of LCD Soundsystem and MGMT, but with an extra dose of modernist pop.
Beyond collaborators, Bad Heather and future.exboyfriend are friends and room-mates. Together, they were inspired to make Take My Picture based on their ‘shared experiences and candid talks about the music industry's competitive edge and local scene challenges’.
What draws me to this song is the way it plays with styles in a way that manages to keep introducing surprising elements through to the end. The initial clipped bass and snarky vocals are very noughties post-punk, but the bridge drops in rave-y synths and distorted drums, like a kid gorging themselves in a music-candy-shop. More than anything, it is the sound of playful confidence. The chants of ‘get a good look’ that follow the chorus are so distinctive and in-your-face — it feels like the culmination of the song. And yet somehow it holds one final surprise back, a final surge of snarky aggression as the vocals resolve into a near scream and the instrumentation descends into a drum and bass cacophony.