"Warmer Cooler" is a slow-motion swirl of fizzing white noise and splashes of synth that Papich and Field-Pickering constructed in part on CDJs, blurring the line between field recordings, improv, and turntablism.
Lifted have never been terribly concerned with structure. 'In Lifted there is no strict control,' Field-Pickering has said. 'I think a lot of Lifted songs do tend to make a path of their own... our sense of editing sort of melts down.'
No track better encapsulates this newfound lyrical side of Lifted than 'Open Door,' a languid ambient-jazz miniature made with little more than a wistful circular piano melody and daubs of what sound like clarinet.
'Specials,' sculpted around a gorgeous bass-synth melody from Papich, has a low-key sentimentality that reminds me of Arthur Russell, even if it doesn't exactly sound like him.
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