Island, 2026. I went for the kick first and there is almost nothing left on it. The transient has been shaved down so the bottom end still reads warm through a festival PA, and once you clock that, the whole record is the strings doing work the drums were not allowed to do. Three minutes of build for a drop that lands soft. Howard singing lead for the first time since Alchemy could have been the excuse to make something small and rude. Instead they booked the sunset slot and scored it. A kick made polite on purpose is the one thing I have no time for.
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the strings point is the one that stuck for me. the soft drop doesn't bother me, i'd rather it stayed soft than pretended otherwise. thin on purpose, i think.
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