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yikes this is really captivating dreamy vibrantly layered music! this reaches for the stars

really nicely phrased intro and the follow through is truly moving. this transmits some good vibes, instrument voicing just superb. ace track man

ace mix on this, love them disorienting akais! the bass has a super woody tone, nice fingering there. a whole passel of guitars create a knotty ambience the other sounds flicker around like a Van de Graaff generator. this has a restorative quality i quite needed before heading in to work tonight.
and coincidentally i have al green lined up for my commute, look what you’ve done eh? hope you’re bringing in the new year in fine fashion my friend!

i’ve got this under my skin, mate. beautifully damaged, groovy as hell. really intriguing gtrs + electronics roomy but accumulating steam, awesome stuff happening by the 3.00 mark. the selection and placement of vox is extrasensory. weird, seething voodoo. cha cha cha.

high marks for squiggliness. what a treat. louche lounge smoking allowed near the rhodes and it’s coming outta the flute too. it’s a colorful joint too and btw gravity does not apply in this establishment. i’m the guy clinking the empty bottles at the end — show me the way to go home!

this is wonderful, mate — it’s like your ‘year of the cat’! the aco just slinks right in like a cat into a smoky nightclub seriously looking to hook up without another cat. brassy af. very cool

ha there’ll be nothing left of the fucking ballroom! this tips over the tables, mate! don’t take any of trump’s phone calls! nice to have you in form, it’s a nice fuck-you to start the awards season. cheers!

ok, the bottom is definitely punchier. don’t kill me but i hear less presence on the guitar/organ and i really miss that. i applaud you studying with 2sisters, don’t get me wrong. mastering is an art that leaves me in the weeds, there’s too much specialized tweaking! but i learn lots listening to you guys applying it. keep going!

i kinda like the autotune it suits the song and your voice still comes thru quite persuasively. a catchy, seductive track

yeah man i love the pockets in this track, funky as heck brother! the opening is genius the intro gtr is particularly fine. the glitter accentuates the darkness. party on!
please re-send me the link to the stems!

drone and harmonics beautiful and then it’s mindblowing, my friend. this is an amygdala hijack. i’m getting 30 mins of total bliss before sunrise. inspired. btw i covered that swinging speaker bit, alvin lucier i think it was. i love 50s 60s ‘classical’ bonkers stuff. man oh man this is great

brilliant moment when the song veers even deeper into the uncanny valley. excellent track.

bitter but sweetly delivered, i’m going to find some mushrooms…

love the weird velocities and freaked out expansiveness. very plugged into the back of my head!

like being in a speeding convertible a metropolis of harsh refractions and unexpected elevations

this is all hooks, crazy and jazzy tune. i want more, it’s addictive

far out and deeply felt. outro really works. the sound is tremendous i love the spacy reel of the first part and the sweep that follows. brilliant stuff man!

haha, fantastic man! always loved syd’s pink and you ran with that like a real madcap. astral and gutsy.

wow, my friend. fantastic. what an awful challenge! this is really swinging at the fences, in a way so genuinely sweet it should be indecent. an amazing amount of warmth in each perf, like the cymbals are so right on!

the overlapping texts and music like happily drinking absinthe by the litre and dancing in a blackout. superb verses.

cool electronics and really nice work on the structure and flow of the track. i thought you might go full dubstep for a moment in the beginning! a well-wrought depiction of your meteor

that is a cool trip, it really made me set time aside for the duration. thanks for the meditation!

really messed up molten core running below the dry metals and drumbeat, until the meltdown occurs. one of the best wavforms i’ve seen in ages! dreadful and pretty lovely soundscaping, DOOM!

hello, Elaine! BB has lots of sound commentary, but i think this belongs to a pretty well-developed school of funk/rnb/blues that jams the fuck out of that one chord progression. like at 1.25 where this reaches its stride. true to yr description this is a positive vibe and it’s awful nice to see ya.

fantastically packed with strange codes and dislocations, i am really moved by the track. the title certainly shaped my approach to the music and for the better i think. it’s cool that you provided that kind of guidance. ace track!