Basement Jaxx featuring Lightspeed Champion “My Turn”
A melancholy folk ballad about a romance’s failing underlined with a pounding dancefloor throb and squelchy electro accents? That’s hardly a brow-raiser in the “anything goes” music days of 2009, but that doesn’t stop Basement Jaxx and featured guest Lightspeed Champion‘s Scars collaboration “My Turn” from oozing delightful quirk at every corner.
Opening with a few seconds of wistfully lain acoustic guitar before being rocked to life with a gigantic-sized club pounce, “My Turn”‘s first-days-of-spring joviality would sound perfect backing one’s giddiment to a new romance’s beginnings, but somewhat oddly, it’s instead used to prop up Champion’s woeful narrative about a relationship that, despite his best efforts, seems unable to be saved.
“Broken down forever now/ We are losing what we found/ My heart is left alone in pieces,” he mews amidst the track’s shimmery electro tinkerings and ecstactic thump, an effective juxtoposition that presents him as the lone sad sap in a musical frame that signifies the rest of the world tauntingly celebrating the highs of being in love around him.
Scars arrives September 22nd.
Recent Comments