Lifting Me Higher

The Chemical Brothers “Snow”

We hear a lot about love lifting people up in pop music, and when we do, the music typically illustrates the height rather than the depth. “Snow” goes the other way, implying a slow upward drift from the bottom of some emotional nowhere. It’s mostly static and noise sculpted into a lightly pulsating, percussion-free rhythm, with washes of ugly sound entering the mix, making it feel as though you’re gently levitating through dark clouds of pollution on your way to a cleaner, brighter place in the sky.

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