Always Putting Up A Fight

a.s.o. “My Baby’s Got It Out for Me”

“My Baby’s Got It Out for Me” is an expertly crafted trip-hop pastiche made by a duo of musicians so attuned to the details that the music feels a little uncanny in how accurately it replicates a specific mid-90s palette. I’ve seen a lot of people compare this to Portishead, which isn’t wrong in the broadest sense, but I think it’s closer to sounding like if Sneaker Pimps ever managed to make another song on par with “6 Underground.” (But like, 30% more stoned.) This is to say that I think this is music that is borne of extremely nerdy trainspotter/mood board impulses, but is executed so well that any trace of neediness is lost in the music’s extremely sexy atmosphere. All you really hear is the lust, the fantasy, and the surrender to darkness.

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