Download above or via SoundCloud, which allows you to comment directly to the band, and spares me a bit of bandwidth in the process.įingertips was founded in 2003 with the express intent of scouring the internet for the best free and legal MP3s, and reviewing said songs in idiosyncratic detail. This one follows the duo’s 2011 debut Celestial Electric. “All the Love” is from the album La Musique Numérique, released in May on Park The Van Records. And let’s not overlook what is almost always overlooked in any kind of funked-up setting: the melodies, which here are wonderfully concise and well-conceived-the verse with its carefully considered intervals, the chorus with its chugging, uphill, double-time hook.
Listen too to the instrumental break beginning at 2:15: you can hear the space between the bass and the drums and how the retro, space-agey synthesizer squiggles vertically down through it.
And listen to how spare and disciplined the guitar riffs are! Lesson number one: when the song is written, the players don’t have to show off, they just have to show up. Unlike our ubiquitous 21st-century beats, this is first and foremost a bass-and-guitar-driven groove. The physical nature of the construction gives “All the Love” a resplendence difficult to generate digitally. These guys may construct songs while thousands of miles apart-AM is a singer/songwriter in Los Angeles, Shawn Lee a London-based multi-instrumentalist and producer-but they’re building from genuine components as their press material puts it: “The instruments are played, the vocals are sung, and the songs are written.” It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it. But this one should stay in consideration, not only for its slinky, slidy beat, which patrols the razor’s edge between funk and disco, but for its honest, dare I say organic soundscape. Too early to nominate the Song of the Summer? Probably.
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