Not quite future bass. Not quite future trap. Not quite future. Rooted in the sounds that make us swirl with intense pleasure, Giraffage and Slow Magic‘s new collaboration, the emoji screaming “So Cute,” is a leap into magnetic ecstasy. The track moves like a spoon through Jell-O as it bounces, gleans, and sways through significantly tasty movements that lift and drop and echo.
Both Slow Magic and Giraffage have dabbled in this level of production in the past: “Close 2 Me” and “On Yr Side” respectively demonstrate the kind of balance necessary to pull off a genre bending, subtle exercise in tastemaking. “So Cute” is like their victory lap. It’s the track that says, “Yeah. We’re here. And we want you to move.” It’s an energetic war cry into the heavens layered with synths, samples, and snares. It’s the past, the present, and future as it takes expectations and pulls the rug out from underneath them exposing a new terrain where each shift is a pleasant, unexpected sigh of glee.
Hate to say it, but it’s time to move over, Flume.
Stream Giraffage and Slow Magic’s “So Cute” below and make sure you catch them on tour this fall; they’re making a stop at the 9:30 Club.
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