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The Field “Cupid’s Head”

The thing I like most about The Field’s music is the way it can feel like moving and being frozen in place at the same time, or like being at the center of some kind of time glitch. Axel Willner’s loops are so brief and tight, like oddly clipped animated gifs of sound, but his arrangements are much less static, slowly shifting around subtle beats, sounds and tones. My favorite of these in “Cupid’s Head” is a droning keyboard part that is buried enough to be nearly subliminal, but is crucial in that it makes the composition bend and curve a bit, and suggests a bit of movement that is removed from the momentum of the loop and beat.

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