It could be David Foster Wallace’s suicide. It could be any number of things. I’m pensive and ponderous and have that not-wonderful ennui that involves thoughts of running. This, then, is the perfect soundtrack:
The Enemy: This Song Is About You (Rollo and Sister Bliss mix)
There’s something about this, this post-rave post-post grime UK street-rock not-punk that rings reminiscent, to these ears, of Springsteen standing in a steel factory and pumping his fist in the air. And that’s not a bad thing. Rather, UK group The Enemy, no relation to the undies-wetting GA-based former Drum N Bass heart-throb (thankfully), takes a Streets-esque approach to a chronicle of LDN-town and sets the bar fairly high by aiming totally low: what’s going on right *now*. Faithless’s Rollo and Sister Bliss spin spin sugar out of webs of bleakness, and it’s fitting, then, that the first time I heard this was as the proper intro to Sister Bliss’s recently-released Nightmoves mix.
There’s something about the handeling of this sense of unease, of restlessness, in it being turned into a slow-burning prog-trance anthem, that raises the hairs on the back of my neck and hands and sends chills down my spine. I raise issue with the placement of this remix on Nightmoves:this isn’t an opening-moments kind of remix. This is midway through the end of the night, raising questions that can’t be answered and causing unease, angst, that has to be remedied through movement rather than stasis.
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