Flight Facilities are back with their newest single "Better Than Ever" featuring Aloe Blacc, and the song marks the duo's continued experimentation with genres as they stray away from electronic and into soulful pop. "Better Than Ever" is a feel-good tune that fuses vocoded sound effects, encouraging claps, and stimulating guita [+]
Flight Facilities are back with their newest single "Better Than Ever" featuring Aloe Blacc, and the song marks the duo's continued experimentation with genres as they stray away from electronic and into soulful pop. "Better Than Ever" is a feel-good tune that fuses vocoded sound effects, encouraging claps, and stimulating guitar riffs into a catchy, radio friendly base. Blacc’s mesmerizing vocals captivate from the track’s outset, proving why he has been a highly coveted collaborator with electronic music acts. Flight Facilities allow Blacc’s voice to remain the highlight of the release, foregoing an electronic drop and choosing to use choir-esque elements as a complement to the track’s key elements.The Flight Facilities duo comment on "Better Than Ever" in an official release, stating, "We try to explore all genres with our music, and ‘Better Than Ever’ may be as close to pop as we’ve ever been." Be that as it may, "Better Than Ever" still contains Fight Facilities' songwriting magic, which constitutes a positive, hyper-energetic joyfulness. Managing to be insanely catchy and infectious and yet somehow retain a taut, elegant, high quality that gradually reveas itself after multiple listenings. Even though on the surface it sounds like any other standard pop song, Flight Facilities always manage to take it that little bit higher, both artistic and human. You may need to listen to it a few times for this to reveal itself though. Than is the result of only one possible quality - incedibly talented songwriting. [...]