I Know was the first song to come out of Portishead's Geoff Barrow's side project, and after about 5 listens, it hit me. It was brilliant. There was plenty of buzz online about it, and one blog described it as sounding like it was made with vintage medical equipment. I thought that was particularly apt. A stuttering beat and that intermittent keyboard pulse conjure the image of a life support machine whirring into action, sustaining some kind of irregular heartbeat in its user. The keyboard pulse actually gets stronger but then it stops abruptly at 2:38, giving way to a sequence of steady synth drones. Almost like the patient crashes and flatlines. And the distant, spacey vocals call out to him as he floats somewhere. This track blew my mind, but it did it subtly and slowly.
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