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Jensen Sportag “Power Sergio”

There’s very little in “Power Sergio” that doesn’t feel familiar, which is kinda the point. It’s a warm, comforting disco cocoon, a place to hide out when everything feels hopeless and wrong. Disco music is very often pitched as escapist fare, but the tension in “Power Sergio” is basically, what happens to that music when it’s always the same escape? When the place you go to get away from trouble becomes home, and the distinctions between the good and bad parts of your life begin to blur there? The melancholy at the heart of the song doesn’t recede at all — if anything, the awareness of the sadness is intensified by the self-conscious attempt to dance it all away.

Buy it via Jensen Sportag’s MySpace page.

Appaloosa “The Day We Fell In Love”

The day a couple falls in love is split into the time before and after that moment, and so this song emulates that in its structure. The opening section is fragile and slightly awkward as it tiptoes around feelings, unsure of how to articulate powerful emotions. The second section is blissed-out and relieved as it drifts off, repeating a mantra that’s more like a subtitle to the emotional action: “Two hearts unchained, flying.” In other words, by the end of the song, we have all feeling, and much less thinking.

Buy it from Kitsune.