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Swindle featuring Ash Riser “London to L.A.”

This is as surprising and formally strange as a song can probably get while also being very, very, very chill. Swindle’s arrangement is built around a lovely, jazzy chord progression played on guitar, but the rest of the song is constantly shifting – an early lead part that sounds very Stevie Wonder to me; a funky keyboard riff that could belong to a Justin Timberlake song; a full-on dubstep drop sequence that somehow doesn’t derail the mellow vibe. And then there’s a horn solo and a string section. It’s kinda amazing to hear him pull this off, and make everything sound like it all belongs in the same song. Even the parts that contrast the most with that central guitar part seem to just give in and go along with its flow.

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