Crystalline and fractured, Laid basks in its own brittle sensitivity. Haunting vocals meld with electronics to create something that sound like a thick soup of FKA Twigs, Flume, and Apparat. The production glitters with detail, embellishing SINK’s vocal to create an emotive sound, and it conveys a depth and scale to the alienation SINK depicts, as the artist describes:
“I wrote this song when I was still in north Italy, when my music didn’t seem to have a purpose for me any more as I was feeling unheard, and I hope this will help others not to feel the same.”
I regularly find myself reflecting on the role time plays in our lives — how all our drama and anxiety stems from time… The finite scope of our experience, the inability to experience anything beyond the slim sliver of time we label the present, the subjectivity of the past, the unknowability of the future. Time is our constant and universal truth, and our overarching constraint. After listening to Laid, I was interested to hear how central time was to the song:
“Laid is about our relationship with time and the way we experience connections, goals, and anxieties. Perhaps time is our most ancient enemy and the social media reshaped it for us. It’s an intrusion, a violation.”
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