May 12th, 2022 3:22pm
It’s The State Of Mind
HAAi featuring Jon Hopkins “Baby, We’re Ascending”
“Baby, We’re Ascending” sounds like a rave in a wind tunnel, implying a submission to powerful outside forces in two different but complementary ways. The music feels urgent but Haai’s vocal is very peaceful and grounded, describing an epiphany that makes her feel as though she’s moving towards grace and the sublime. The lyrics are vague enough to mean whatever you need, but it seems to me that she’s talking specifically about music here. She’s experiencing a moment of transcendental beauty through someone else’s music and realizing she has the power to commune with it, or make her own – “I could be the whole symphony.”
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