In The Midst Of Time

Snoh Aalegra “In Your River”

Snoh Aalegra has a big brassy voice, but it’s only the second most striking thing in this track after the string arrangement, which trills and sweeps and swells like an old Hollywood score compressed into a tight three minutes. As epic as the vocal and strings get, there’s still a huge amount of space in this, similar to the balance of lonely nothingness and glamorous excess you’d find on ‘90s Portishead records. Aalegra’s vocal performance is stuck between here and there as well; she sings about romantic indecision with equal passion for both sides of her internal conflict.

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