The Blow - "Hey Boy (Nicolas Jaar re-work)". Nico Jaar takes Khaela Maricich's indolent complaint and makes it a thing of regimented community, marshaled handclaps. It's my favourite kind of dry and hopscotch beat: you trace and retrace the same dance steps, stamping footprints into the floor. Clouds assemble and dissipate; hurricanes wave and skim away. The boy never calls. [buy Jaar's Bluewave Edits, which also includes his version of Missy's "Work It"]
Jhene Aiko - "Snapped". "Baby," Jhene begins, "I got ya / I shot ya." She is a cold-blooded killer. She is deliberate and merciless. She is a girl who runs the world, who writes her songs herself, who takes no prisoners. The exquisite "Stranger" did not prepare me for this brutality. Look:
I ripped the shit to shreds
Now he's dead.
Guess I'm a killa
Call me a murderer
Some kind of monster
I'm just a horrible person.
I try to tell 'em
Don't play with my love
This is your warnin
I do not give a fuck.
not a fighter
but I been hurt many times
I'm tired.
There is no undoing the precedents. Throw another diamond in the fire. [website]
(image by the inimitable Uno Moralez)
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