Close Your Eyes And Count To Ten

Feist “Inside & Out (Ewan Pearson & Al Usher Dub)” – I wonder if the Beegees had to get a royalty for this track. It’s ostensibly a remix of Feist covering one of their songs, but Pearson and Usher’s final product seems to have no relationship with that recording whatsoever, unless I’m missing some subtle little thing only a trained musician or musicologist could pick up on. Pearson and Usher do some amazing things with the vocal samples in this track, implying an incredible amount of emotional detail from otherwise unintelligible vocal fragments. It’s all hopeful anticipation and subtle sexuality, and it feels like someone’s interior world expanding outward into reality. (Click here to buy it from Juno.)

Crossover “Apples On A Stick” – The lyrics of this track come off like a string of silly inside jokes, but even the most ridiculous lines seem sexy and compelling to me. [Err, as it turns out these are traditional jump rope rhymes…] Maybe it’s the bass and the beats. It could be the aura of mystery. It’s probably just because I’m a sucker for this girl’s voice every single time. (Click here to buy it from Juno.)