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Meernaa “Ready to Break”

“Ready to Break” is a very dense and rich piece of music that nevertheless feels loose and light. That’s mostly due to the way the song’s syncopated percussion seems to be at some distance from the keyboard chords and lead lines, with Carly Bond’s emotive voice lingering somewhere in the space between. There’s some interesting twists and turns here – it starts off as an 80s sort of funk pop ballad, but takes off on a tangent for the last couple minutes that sounds like if Robert Fripp and Sheila E sat in on a Janet Jackson song around 1986. There’s a real joy to this music, particularly in the way they seem to utterly delight in the sounds of the chords they choose, and how they pack them into the song with a lot of grace and style.

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