Does Every Decade Have This Feeling?

Low Hummer “Connected”

There’s no shortage of people attempting to write about how social media has impacted our lives, and a lot of the time it doesn’t fully work – too serious, too didactic, too overblown, too generally cringe, take your pick. Low Hummer make it work in this song by focusing on a central paradox – “I’ve never felt so connected, and alone” – and mostly just asking a lot of questions with no answers. Both singers sound bitter and confused and overwhelmed, and true to the conceit, like they’re singing at but not with each other.

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Jadasea & Laron “The Corner”

Laron’s production on The Corner is mostly quite disorienting, often suggesting the audio equivalent of extreme depth of field by contrasting super filtered bass with pitched-up vocal samples that blare over Jadasea’s rapping. There are moments in the title song that feel like they’re deliberately designed to knock the listener off balance, but despite the perverse mixing choices, it still holds together as this mutated version of, say, early Kanye.

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