An end of season love song with peels of warm bass and a junglist sensibility, this is Jakwob in deep lovers mode, and the London producer turns the London-based vocalist's eletro-pop original into something you'd imagine Wilkinson dropping as his last tune on a sultry beach somewhere in a hot climate - kinda akin to that perfect rave you have in your mind, but with more romance.
(You'll presumably have to hope your partner doesn't mind you pausing to switch your wearable into "lover performance" mode. Not a mood kill at all… ).
(Both songs are addressed to a lover and involve modes of distress: falling, drowning).
"Periphery," for instance, bubbles along jauntily while its lyrics catalogue the petty, itchy anguish of losing a lover to traditional modes of home and family.
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He gives us a catalogue of male members belonging to Joe's lovers, and, in medical-textbook mode, drawings and photographs of female genitalia.
Excellent company on every page, whether she's ruminating over the arctic tern's 22,000-mile round trip from one pole to the other or telling us that the crow's nest on a sailing ship takes its name from the birds used to direct lost vessels toward land, Ackerman is especially enjoyable in her digressive mode, discussing nature lovers she admires.
There's even a specially designed "Pet Mode" for animal lovers.
At the end of the summer, the narrator returns to Boston, where within a few months s/he finds a lover, a new apartment, a new mode of life.
