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Of Montreal :: "Gronlandic Edit"From Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl; 2006)
Been looking for some glittery, disco-ball dance pop in your life lately? Can’t say I blame you. The days are getting shorter, trees seem to be losing their leaves at an alarming rate, and I’m able to see my breath in the air when I leave the apartment in the mornings. Luckily for us, Kevin Barnes is back in town, and, having spent a long, cold winter in Norway, has just the answer for these fall days. Case in point: “Gronlandic Edit.” With one straightforward pop song, Barnes effectively dispels the weather and leaves the world one happy, glammed up dance floor, if only for three and a half minutes.
It’s all about that bass line: simple, quick, warm, and all you need to get the cute girls dancing. There’s almost nothing else the song needs, and Barnes manages to keep the extraneous elements to a minimum. The synthed-out breakdown works well, and the man never sounds better than when covering his own harmony parts, but at the end of the day it all comes back to that loping bass. Think Fujiya & Miyagi’s “Collarbone” or Professor Murder’s “The Mountain.” Yeah, it’s like that. And the best part: it isn’t even close to the best song on Of Montreal’s 10th album.
Peter Hepburn :: 2 October 2006 |
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