Acclaimed Flop: The band, while relatively well-received, were little-known during their time together and the debt they landed in following the commercial failure of D.I. Go Pop was a factor in them eventually splitting up.
While intense and hard-to-grasp at first, "From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sky" eventually becomes this; from the harpsichord at the back of the song, to the fluttering pianos that overtake the track, to the chilled-out repetitive bass riff.
Both of the tracks on Summer's Last Sound; the shifting, strummed guitar and watery keys on the title track, and the soothing harp plucks and bassline on "Love Stepping Out".
The twinkling synths on "Can't See Through It" are beautiful and nostalgic sounding.
As a whole, the way Disco Inferno use and bend samples and field recordings gives their music a fractured, almost Uncanny Valley sound. This of course causes their more collage-like tracks like "From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sky" and "A Night on the Tiles" to fall into this territory, but it even makes some of their brighter-sounding tracks like "Footprints in the Snow", "The Atheist's Burden", and "A Little Something" somewhat disturbing.
D.I. Go Pop is probably the best example of this; the distorted, Creepy Monotone vocals on "New Clothes for the New World", head-splitting noise and car crash samples on "A Crash at Every Speed", the distorted seagulls backing up the lead guitar on "Even the Sea Sides Against Us", and the general wonkiness of "Starbound: All Burnt Up & Nowhere to Go".
The song, "D.I. Go Pop", qualifies too; a sample of My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise" shifted into overdrive, skittering hard-to-make-out beats, and descriptions like "a small boy who was covered in blood" and "a woman who was beaten quite black" all come together to create the most intense, off-balance song in the band's discography.
