Sunday, December 24, 2017

DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER : THE SONGS, 2017.


09/ema/breathalyzer

Breathalyzer has a clear and direct storyline. A boy & a girl cruise about in a Toyota Camry. They chill down by the park. They sit in dark apartment parking lots. Down by the malls, and around places where they'll be concealed by big boxes and empty space. Together and alone. They get fucked up. And in this story, our narrator is the female companion of this trip. Going in, you may not know this back story. And what is presented here might come off as dangerous or menacing to others, or represent something else completely. Or cause distress, leading you to ask, should I even be taking part in this? Such is the beauty of EMA's Breathalyzer, an incredibly riveting and dark industrial track that sounds like it’s backed by Nine Inch Nails, and perfectly captures and places you within the dizzying spell of these escapades accompanied by intoxicants. When the song descends into a swirling paranoia followed by her repeat cries of the word "baby" into his deep, exhausting breaths for its closing, you too feel high and heavy, just like our lifted protagonists in that Camry backseat. 




10/lcd soundsystem/how do you sleep?

11/j balvin + willy william + beyonce/mi gente

12/thundercat + michael mcdonald + kenny loggins/show you the way

13/drake/passionfruit

14/kendrick lamar + rihanna/loyalty

15/joe goddard/home

16/n.e.r.d + rihanna/lemon

17/vince staples/big fish

18/charli xcx/blame it on u

19/cut copy/standing in the middle of the field

20/haim/right now

21/ariel pink/feels like heaven

22/harry styles/sign of the times

23/lorde/green light

24/st. vincent/los ageless

25/miley cyrus/malibu









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