Camouflage, come back: all is forgiven.
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Anthony Easton: I love the line “afraid of my body/afraid of everybody” and “come through/come to.” I love the idea of drowning, and of being taught to breathe: that metaphor of doubling and paedology w/o codependency. It’s lovely and beautiful. When you have gotten everything you have ever wanted, what is the next narrative step?
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Iain Mew: The electronic pulse and his deep voice go together fantastically well. Those vocals make for most of the roughness that shows around the edges but is held back by the snappy percussion and lighter bits of synths. I don’t think that this song is quite the one to do the sound justice, especially not over this length, but it’s a sound I want to listen to more.
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Jonathan Bogart: It’s probably narcissism that makes me embarrassed by a declaration of selfhood: “I’m just me” is a hideous thing for someone in my socioeconomic/ethnic/sexuality/health categories to say, and I have to force myself to hear it through other ears before I can hear it as affirming rather than obnoxious.
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Brad Shoup: This is pretty bad, but anything that gives me the urge to pick up Lateralus just has to have magical powers.
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Sabina Tang: Perfectly catchy and danceable electropop, but one wishes for the quirk: a weirder middle eight, perhaps, or a vocalist with not just sonority but character (eg. Patrick Wolf or Dave Gahan, to stick to the same approximate register).
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Alfred Soto: Pining for those nights in 1985 when stentorian “European” accents asked revelers to shake their disease to the mirror ball, Diamond Rings get the details right: dumb commands (“show me what to live for”), mangled pronunciations (“moh-ment”), thick sequencers, and not a grin from here to Munich. This would’ve been an easy triumph if the production didn’t indulge in contemporary Eurodance stylings.
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Will Adams: Who knew burgeoning self-confidence could sound so menacing? The chorus roars with the right amount of gravitas, but everything else is like serving a steak with Skittles.
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