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Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:07 AM PDT
London singer-songwriter Ben Khan's "Drive (Part I)" was a slice of muggy bedroom soul that can steam car windows, and his new track, "Eden", utilizes the same wobble while pushing Khan's breathy vocals further to the front and drenching them in less reverb. "Palms to the sky on a religious high," he sings, but the track's woozy throb evokes the kind of transcendence more commonly induced by chemicals than by scripture.
Guitars are bent over the track's groove and synths contract and expand as if they're breathing; elsewhere, it's difficult to tell if you're hearing horns, elephant honks, or horns manipulated to sound like elephant honks. "Eden" finds Khan operating in a vein similar to the patchwork R&B of Jai Paul and ending up with something that flattens out the creases of that sound, but is no less immediate regardless. Ben Khan: "Eden" on SoundCloud.  |
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