Leaks – Underthought
Here’s a pretty little number from Leaks, another of the Zero Thru Nine alumni. Somehow I switched my VLC player (the thinking man’s player) into 140% playback speed while listening to this and thought he’d developed a new faster paced delivery method which I was willing to accept without question, simply because Tom has a history of modulating pitch and with liberal abandon. It’s only on his past two singles that he’s begun including vocals on his tracks at all but his treatment of them shows he’s obviously not precious about the way they’re presented, manipulating them into instrumental sections rather than retaining them as crisp lyrical devices. I’m glad he hasn’t tried to enter that full voiced slow jam world that puts the vocal big, fat, front and center like a a hippopotamus on the empty open plains, woefully exposed and terrified that he may not be fulfilling his life’s true meaning. There’re enough producer vocalists out there trying to make over sung alt-R&B already and the most of them don’t stir me in the slightest. Lots of little arpeggio pieces and clever layering make this one feel sparse and cushioned, especially with that motorised base track moving up and down gears. Throwback to the last Leaks single ‘Often It’s You‘, also quite lovely indeed.
In other Zero Through Nine related news, I received my super special high powered auxiliary tuned micro four-thirds digitally stabilised quarter pocket 80% transparency Lower Spectrum vinyl arrived yesterday and though I haven’t had the chance to play it yet, it’s been emanating extremely positive auras at me all day so you know it’s gonna be good vibes when I get home with a perfectly aligned set of chakras. Scrawled on the pizza box it was mailed in, “Don’t trust cops”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Just about makes me dream.
Too right mister Sachet