Steal Color From Your Feeling

Betina & Boogarins “Polaroids”

Pretty much every sound in “Polaroid” feels as though it was arranged specifically to please my ear but the part that really puts this song over the top for me is the bass, which has the slo-mo groove and womb-like warmth of a classic Jamaican dub track. Boogarins’ track pulls in sounds from other sources – modern and classic psychedelia, some traces of classic Brazilian pop, a touch of R&B – but it gracefully avoids any particular genre, though I get the sense that we’ll have better terms for this sort of aesthetic down the line. I do love the neither-here-nor-there of it, and the way Betina’s vocal moves between different shades of melancholy so there’s a definite feeling but an ambiguous degree of intensity. The weight of sadness and positive feeling is constantly shifting through the song, and that fluctuation seems to be the point.

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