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Anchorsong “Oriental Suite”

Anchorsong’s music bears a striking resemblance to that of Four Tet, at least in the sense that they’re both working within the same set of rhythmic, melodic, and textural parameters, and have similar ideas about how a song should progress. There’s a shared internal logic, and a similar way of conveying a lot of soulfulness and emotional nuance in the tiny fragments of the human voice. “Oriental Suite” is mainly focused on its instrumental melody line – I think it’s some sort of mallet instrument? – but those vocal snippets give the song its depth. It’s rarely anything more than a syllable, but it suggests a mindset somewhere between focus and distraction, like fading out from the world around you to zone out on some random thing in your line of sight.

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