Thursday, 15 October 2009

Songs that I like: In For the Kill (Skreams Let's Get Ravey Remix) - La Roux


In for the Kill (Skream's let's get ravey Remix) - Youtube


I love how the thing starts, a lovely fluty synthy almost like the pied piper is leading you into a merry dance, and then just as the melody gets a bit too sickly...

Boooooom

The bassline kicks in force undulating in the background while La Roux just about holds it together with an 80’s vocal singing about punctuation and laying your heart on the line. Slowly the baseline starts crumbling. The the time between the dips and highs of the bassline lumbering then stumbling, slower and slower and slower until the song can't take it any more and collapses under its own heaving weight.

Time for a turn around and resurrection: crash into a completely different direction, more snarey drums, but still a growling background of filth. The head nods smoothly, large movements everything becomes very deliberate.

The snares vanish, this is ending soon. Back to the undulations, vocals then...


Stop


SMASH!


Smacks it outta the park... with a dnb encore! As if the last 4 minutes of music have been a tease of brooding tension and menace; and just when things look bleakest and they finish--> here comes the pay off . Have minute 5 for free and let it all go like a mad man!

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