Leisure Suite – Great Expectations
Maybe these are real drums we’re listening to right now, maybe not. Hard to tell these days, these new fangled sonic engineers can make anything sound like anything. You know the other day I was listening to a song thinking I was hearing a synth and it was actually a kangaroo. I kid you not, it was a wiley bedroom producer and he convinced me that a synth was a kangaroo. Wait, no, that a kangaroo was a synth. You know what I mean? It’s a crazy world. Up is down and down is up and Astral Classix are re-releasing Flume’s third album with a bonus track featuring guest vocals from Ice T’s hologram and the entire verse is lifted from his Law & Order quotes and the whole time you’re wondering, “Is this a sample or is this an actual band?”
In the end, I’m less than certain that there was a real life human hitting real life drums but I real life don’t even care because the song is beautiful. Such a clear, warm vocal line that’s not quite perfect but certainly comes close. Three guesses as to who leveled this one so perfectly though if you need more than one then you’ve not followed #melbournemusic these past two years. Tropical sounds that interpose between the more quickly plucked parts and the overlayed twangs are also, mostly likely the product of a keyboard and artfully arranged to leave no jagged edges, the whole thing sanded down to a perfectly flush surface.
Whatever this is, it’s undeniably pleasurable to listen to and a marvelous start for Leisuire Suite.
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Jesus, I’ve spun this approximately 300 times since discovering it here. She got a Yung Sade thing going on and I aint mad.
You and me both. Whatta voice.