Basement Jaxx – ‘Raindrops’
There’s a habit people have of referring to music as if it’s food. This is partly because there are ingredients to both, and flavours…and spice, and heat and chemistry and…well, let’s just say there’s a lot of common language.
But it is also because good music can provide essential sustenance, even if you were not aware that you were hungry. We’ve all had the experience of unexpectedly hearing a long lost favourite song, and suddenly feeling a little taller, a little happier and a lot more confident – refuelled, in other words. It doesn’t even have to happen at a particularly vulnerable time, that’s the beauty of the thing.
(The video’s a bit saucy, but you can hear the song at the band’s official site…)
With that in mind, I am here to tell you that, after one listen to this, the return of the mighty Jaxx, I was spotted doing joyclaps and clearly thinking “Yay! Sonic din-dins!” in a VERY loud internal voice. There’s just so much to get your teeth into. It’s a feast!
It starts like a AR Rahman cast-off from the soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire, all sitars, tablas and what sounds like squalling guitar, before very quickly transforming into a slinky, pounding, twinkling, uplifting house juggernaut.
It’s just so easy to become mesmerised by the production. Even in the quiet bits there’s a filter which muffles the main synth refrain out, letting it build up and percolate though the verses like the magma in an undersea volcano. It’s a ridiculously well-used dance music trick, and yet it ALWAYS works, because when the the chorus arrives in full fidelity, it takes your face off.
This all occurs within the first minute, by the way. I haven’t even mentioned the twiddly metal guitar, the tooty fairground organ, or the amazing bit where the lyric “your moisture drips upon my lips just like a waterfall, straight to the heart of me” are followed by a breakdown in which twinkly, drippy things happen.
None of which would be any use if there wasn’t a euphoric tune at the core of the song – which sort of fits with the lava metaphor, but less well with the cooking one. There again, having two metaphors where one would suffice is a suitably Basement Jaxx thing to do.
Sometimes more is more, after all.
Download: Out now
CD Released: June 22nd
www.basementjaxx.co.uk
BBC Music page
(Fraser McAlpine)
ComfortComes says: “As summertime approaches, this song feels just right.”
The Burning Ear says: “Fresh ta def.”
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