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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Fred again.. & Anderson .Paak, Disclosure, Romy & More
Simply the best new dance tracks of the week from Fred again.. & Anderson .Paak, Disclosure, Romy, Channel Tres and Kygo with Hayla.
2 — has experienced a recent dance world renaissance, with Four Tet playing his dreamy slow burn edit in sets over the last few years, and the pop classic now getting heavily reinterpreted via Romy’s latest, “Always Forever.” The U.K. producer takes the original’s lullaby melody and reassuring lyrics — “I love you always forever, near or far, close or together” — and delivers them in her always exquisite voice, layering these vocals over a warm, glowing production that turns the dial all the way up on the spirit of uplift. Romy’s own lyrics — “it’s okay to be sad, there’s a lot going on I know, did you figure it out, it’s alright if you don’t know” — foster a wise, older-sister vibe, with the song getting an added flourish via an inventive, gorgeously shot modern dance video directed by Charlotte Wells. Together the pair deliver “Without You,” which trades the Norwegian producer’s typical sun-soaked house productions for a bigger, darker, more dramatic and more mainstage focused song built from increasingly urgent piano stabs and a satisfying, oversized build and release.
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