Infatuation From A Distance Makes No Sense

Love Is All “Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up” – For some reason, I had been sleeping on this single for months until Maura played it on her show last Friday. I’m not sure why this song didn’t work for me the first time I had heard it, since it seems very immediate and undeniable now. I’m rather fond of this song’s arrangement, which balances a lot of different textures without letting them drown each other out or call too much attention to the individual instruments. It all comes together as this huge, urgent tidal wave of emotion, and leaves you feeling quite drained by the end of it. (Click here to buy it from Midheaven.)

Ulysses (featuring Dei) “But I’m Trying” – Everyone loves a creepy, sociopathic dance tune, right? As the singers try to rationalize premeditated cruelty and infidelity, the backing track shifts from straight ahead dance pop to more chaotic IDM-esque sections with stuttering beats and vocals which imply that another chorus is about to begin, but cut out suddenly. The song plateaus in the middle with the introduction of a colder keyboard theme and a heavily vocodered male voice before returning to the relatively warm quasi-r+b vocals from the first section. It’s a very clever song all around. (Click here to buy it from 33 RPM.)