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Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:01 AM PDT
Rhode Island producer the Range is releasing his debut LP, Nonfiction, for Brighton's bright, buzzy Donky Pitch label on October 14. "Metal Swing" is the final track from that album, a singular slice of sampladelia that's as hard to place as it is hypnotic. Built around a simple rhythmic template and patient, looping piano chords, "Metal Swing" spends its opening minutes buzzing modestly. It calls to mind the easy, floral melodies of Pause-era Four Tet or the liminal electronic spaces of early Caribou. The piano releases to clear space for the track's star: a sample of what sounds like an amateur British rapper reeling off a string of reasonable, mostly polite boasts.
The rapper's naked voice and marble-mouthed delivery undermine any shade of violence in the lyrics, as the sample just sits and repeats in the pretty, disarming space The Range creates for it. The cadence of the voice seems to double in on itself after several repetitions, and by the time The Range reintroduces the piano melody, the track has eased into a steady trot. The end of the sample atrophies into four quiet, wordless grunts, a soft landing for a voice that seemingly came from nowhere, and has some intention of returning. The Range: "Metal Swing" on SoundCloud.  |
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