The kick hits and something metallic starts gnawing at the bottom of the mix, and by the second bar Moody Good has buried whatever melody was there under a growl that will not let up. This is ‘Clap Back,’ and it wastes no time being polite.
The drop is halftime and mean, the bass folding in on itself like the sound is arguing with the kick drum. First time it snapped over I actually flinched. There is a little swing in the percussion that keeps it from being pure punishment, but the low end is doing the talking, and it talks in that dented, robotic register Moody Good has always chased. Put it on in a concrete car park and let it slap off the walls.
Moody Good is Eddie Jefferys, one half of Modestep before he went solo and got heavier, and this one surfaced through UKF. It runs on the same appetite for a wrecked low end as his older solo runs, just tighter and angrier.
The second half is the best part. He strips the groove back, holds a beat of nothing, then slams the whole thing shut. Piling on more bass would have been the easy move; holding a beat of nothing and slamming it shut is the harder one, and it is what makes the back half land.
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