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Samplelov “Don’t You Know My Name”

Samplelov’s The Look of Adoration is essentially a meta neo-soul record: entirely earnest in its emotion and almost fetishistically rooted in an organic sound, but built from samples and dotted with just enough ironic winking to openly acknowledge its artifice and relative inauthenticity. It’s so consistently lovely and engaging that picking one song from the album wasn’t easy but I landed on “Don’t You Know My Name” because I love the rhythm guitar part and am always a sucker for the way a busy soul bass line sounds when it gets pitched up a little in the sampling process. That sort of James Jamerson bass is always flashy, but in context is more of a subliminal force guiding the movement of the music, but like this it’s more foregrounded as a flamboyant melodic flourish.

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