Reptar - Sebastian

'Sebastian' has a spacey intro that dead-drops you into an island's heatwave. It's both breezy and chaotic, with such a back-and-forth pacing of peacefulness and disorientation that you don't know whether to listen to it on a hammock or while running for your life. Midsong, the vocals get funky, away from the springy happiness of the beginning melody, before flipping back into the same summer-swim vibe as the start. It's like the switch from a murderous deathglare to a genuine smile, that transition. It makes the vocals entirely unpredictable; sometimes the lyrics are blurred together and other times they're enunciated or shouted through gritted teeth. The music's the same way - it has a really tribal feel, with that quirky as hell Oberhofer similarity, but even though it's so wildly everywhere, the percussion grounds the song. There's so much going on in it that when the last note hits, you're left hyperaware.

Glitter Pox rating: 79% contagious

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The Glitter Pox