Jack Grace – Hills
This guy is one of the most promising people of 2015. His EP is one of the most promising releases of 2015. This song is one of the most promising songs of 2015. I think it’s reasonable to refer to a song as promising even after the fact if it doesn’t sum to immediate sensation, if it contains the possibility of growth and later understanding. One can sit and dwell on this song for a while and it won’t necessarily follow the same linear path for everyone. The samples take a long time to resolve into the beat and the beat itself takes time to resolve and even when it does, it bursts apart again forcing your jiggling knees to reassess their movement. Find the tempo again, find the new rythm. That dark, single piano note recurring again and again and again. And again. It’s foreboding and it tells a story unto itself before lyric becomes part of the narrative. Still ignoring lyric though, is that an affected scream or a siren? Wait is that Bruce Hornsby’s EXACT piano tone under the female vocal that started this damn track (it’s back, btw). There’s definitely a tale unfolding but the story arc is so confronting that it’s easy to focus on the structural elements of the track and find it finished before you could consider fully what you just listened to. And there’s an EP of these tracks still to come.
Jack Grace has ghost produced a whole bunch of acts over the past year and been a feature vocal under different names on a bunch of other tracks but the new name indicates new things, the first of which is the unilateral violation of my year’s best of list. Shoe in this, without a doubt.
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God this is so dope…