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Drifting more towards a poppier, ambient R&B side of the dream-pop sound, “Hot Mess” is a song that seems to float through the outer reaches of that genre while also appealing to more mainstream tastes. This Anacy does by taking modern, chilled dance beats as a way of tethering the song’s subtle yet sophisticated sonics, and poised pop moves and arranging them with enough space that everything can breathe, that additional atmospheres pool and percolate in the spaces between the notes and gaps left by the spacious, nuanced lyrics.
Over this, she runs her equally elegant and eloquent vocals, again creating understated textures that drift effortlessly across this shimmering musical landscape. Her delivery is as much about the voice as an instrument in its own right as it is about the direct communication of the words themselves.
The result is a song that ebbs and flows between a chilled, underground world of cinematic ambient sound and a more mainstream place. “Hot Mess,” like her previous single “Delight,” is music that builds bridges: between popular music and a more discerning, underground sound, between the world of pop beats and ambient drift, between the dancefloor and the dreamscape, between the tangible and the impalpable.
If one of the additional functions of a single, apart from being great music in its own right, is to act as an advertisement for the album to follow, which “Hot Mess” is, then on the strength of this sumptuous single, it should fly off the virtual shelves in volume and velocity.
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