Just To Function

Liyv “Weeknight”

The sound of this song – perky and feminine, minimal in its arrangement but maximalist in the way its vocal hook is chopped up and reconfigured as a sort of drop – would’ve seemed ahead of the curve five years ago, and trendy two years ago. Now it just sounds like the zeitgeist, and only slightly stranger than the pop radio version of this aesthetic. Liyv’s vocal melodies make this song particularly sticky, and there’s something very compelling about the way her voice moves around the more jagged edges of the arrangement, like water rushing to fill the void. It’s the chopped up chorus that gets you though, but I will warn you in advance that it can be a little annoying to have this melodic phrase that sounds like it should be a set of words loop in your mind, because I find my brain keeps trying to interpret it as a lyric: “I want a kitten, I want a lil kitten.”

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