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Anchorsong “Tunis Dream”

Anchorsong’s previous records were abstractions rooted in specific places, compositions that were meant to evoke a location in the way that a perfumer designs a scent so you can extrapolate a whole experience from small sensual details. “Tunis Dream” suits the current moment – with world travel off the table, Masaaki Yoshida has turned to evoking that same sense of place from his imagination. As he puts it, this song not meant to represent Tunisia so much as a Tunisia in his mind, and while the difference between him going for “realism” or something more impressionistic is mostly on his side of the music, the track does have a more loose and dreamy quality to it.

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Tor “Foxglove”

“Foxglove” has some bass-rattling busy-beat moments but the most memorable parts feel more like an uneventful equilibrium state before and after the more exciting bits. These sections pull me in mainly with the keyboard chords, which have a dazed rhythm similar to that of Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place.” It gives me a very relaxed head-empty feeling, enough so that the threatening vocal sample just sort of washes over me.

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