Spanning the divide between the lush sounds of modern dreampop and that strange alt-pop realm where you find the likes of The Flaming Lips, “Meteor Shower” seems to be built as much from sighs and sentiment, liquid sonics, and the ebbs and flows of shimmering sound washes as it is from music in the conventional sense.
Sure, it is a pop song, for want of a better term. It does all the things that pop music needs to do: it engages with the listener, runs on contagious sounds, and gently addictive grooves. But it does much more, too.
There is a gorgeous fragility to the song, as if all The Dinosaur’s Skin and Waa Wei have done here is create a sonic bubble and used it to trap these mercurial sounds within, allowing them to float and form, pool together and percolate into sonic bliss, rather than anything particularly pre-planned. (Although nothing this beautiful could happen by accident.)
It’s the sound of Eastern exotica blending with Western groove, the sound of the Orient and Occident coming together to birth new sonic forms. An old saying goes, “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Well, “Meteor Shower” is proof that the world is a small place; the twain should meet, creatively and do so often, and the world is a better place for it.