A Habit, A Predilection

Pond “So Lo”

“So Lo” presents as a swaggering and groovy funk rock song. And it is, so long as you don’t pay too much attention to the lyrics, which undermine the slick guy attitude by making it clear this is a fake-it-til-you-make-it situation for a guy who must invent “endless tides of fiction” to rationalize feeling or looking like a cool dude. It’s played as cheeky comedy from the opening line – “white dreads get my blood pumping, these tummy tablets got me breaking in two” – but the song is so fun and well-constructed that it’s easy to take it at face value musically. And speaking of, I really wish I had the technical knowledge to figure out why this sounds so incredibly mid-00s to me. It’s something about the tone, the particular palette, the way it’s mixed? Still getting used to hearing stuff that sounds retro 00s, but that’s just how it goes.

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