It was all in the service of gauzy, amiable funk, music that carefully strings out the listener's pleasure buzz without dropping a discomfort zone; for a mildly weird effect, the keyboardist Mark De Gli Antoni sometimes added eight-bar patches of rumbling, whirring, science-fictiony samples.
Chaney said it was "fine" and gave it a "B", while Futterman wrote, "Harmony brings Latin flair and proves that she's legit vocal competition, but the song as a whole has the weird effect of feeling both over-the-top and watered down at the same time".
Since then, he's split his allegiances between Dirtybird, Hannover's This Ain't Bristol, and Los Angeles label Perfect Driver, all while pushing a sound that has this weird effect of having you shaking your ass and crack up laughing at the same time.
Over at the Physics Buzz blog, tips include the scientists who made the first experimental confirmations of a weird quantum effect known as "entanglement".
For people with vision like hers, she said, words like book and door can be almost indecipherable because the letters b or d followed by o create a weird visual effect.
