Seems like there's a post like this from someone on almost every matchup that ends up being close. It ain't over till it's over. That's why my philosophy is always to vote based on my preference, however narrow that preference is, and avoid voting for perceived underdogs based on their status as such.
I love Hval's free-associative approach to pop on 'Spells', with its swirling, subtly dissonant saxophones floating in and out of its disco-tinged, anthemic '80s pop-rock like licks of smoke, while her glorious voice rises into that beautiful apocalypse of a chorus. Every (solo) release of hers features one pop banger, a song that pushes her otherwise experimental, ominous, sex-positive, quasi-ambient spoken word into Fleetwood Mac- and Sade- and Kate Bush-shaped boxes, and this is her best yet, a cathartic release that feels like the glorious final stage of a trilogy that began with 'The Battle Is Over' and continued into 'Conceptual Romance'. She makes music that is at once dizzyingly dense and yet refreshingly airy, music that is both exhaustingly heavy and yet blessed with an always natural, always playful lightness of touch. I know it's an easy and lazy comparison, but on 'Spells' she recalls the best moments of fellow Scandinavians Robyn and Björk, crafting a slice of pop music that is unafraid of tackling the micro and the macro, hyper-personal music that is full of huge, universal ideas, and that manages to be catchy and immediate without any hint of compromise. She is one of the most beguiling artists working today, and 'Spells' is her finest achievement to date, the most natural synthesis of her pure pop and more avant-garde leanings yet. I'm generally of the opinion that she can do no wrong, but even I didn't know she could be so right. So yeah, vote to 'Spells', a raging river of a song, a rhino-shaped cloud of a song, an Elven banquet of a song, an ascending unicorn of a song, an exploding disco ball of a song. We will not be awake for long.
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If we're now re-upping commentary from the hidden depths of the previous page, I might as well reiterate this from the last round:
baystateoftheart wrote:
To give some more context on what I think it does really well, here are some other track tournaments I probably would have nominated Nobody for, in addition to BTT 2018:
- Best Ever Indie Pop Song About Loneliness
- Best Ever Integration Of Disco Influence Into Indie Pop
- Best Ever Emotionally Expressive One-Word Chorus
- Best Ever "Why Am I Crying In The Club Right Now" Song
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