Music

Those clean electric strums do not prepare you for that stick-heavy drum thing; and that does not prepare for the hook.

As the song progresses the elements build to an electronic climax that lines up with the purification. Samuel J, with his song Embrace gives us a blueprint for getting woke.

that guitar tone and the synth stabs could all have come from a Franz Ferdinand record, but the voice of Meg Britannie is sheer punk-power.

That soul voice is fine-grain sandpaper around the edges of that bass groove and then its a Walter Becker solo. And then youre home.

Spring-reverb 1950s stuff and later-era synth sounds with a rock vocal and some very scientific songwriting.

A second coming of the sort of spirit in Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, or even a folky Joe Cocker.

This one feels authentic in a way that is disarmingly simple: you fight for me, and Ill fight for you.

The harmonies are clear and precisely indifferent to one another, like two lovers shouting across a canyon.