Thursday, December 19th, 2013

The Opposites ft. Mr. Probz – Sukkel Voor De Liefde

Joris Gillet delivers us some Dutchmen with no plausible American counterparts to speak of…


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Crystal Leww: WE SAID “NO DRAKE”.
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Iain Mew: I got a taste for the cadences of Dutch rapping during the 2010 edition of the Pop World Cup, so I’m happy to get reacquainted with The Opposites. “Sukkel Voor de Liefde” (“Sucker for Love”) has them as disillusioned kings of the club brooding over the emptiness of fame; the brass blare that sounds like an emotional catch in the throat helps to make it better than the tempting description “Dutch Drake” would indicate.
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Anthony Easton: The brass is so greasy that the whole track slides on it into some kind of hermetic meta-disco.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Over opulence both brass’n’brash that recalls DJ Khalil’s late-noughties work (namely Drake’s “Fear”), a pair of Dutch bozos talk about fame, bad bitches and de diskotheek in vapid flows and voices. You won’t pity a damn thing.
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Brad Shoup: Clicked this in the browser with “Dusty Money” going on Spotify… holy shit. Spring for the symphony, y’all. Other than the rasping trumpet intro, the orchestral touches are dabbed gently: flute and strings paired and employed as rhythm, the strings breaking free for Twan’s verse, the horns joining after for a little jaunt. Mr. Probz is little more than an interlude, but his lower register and melodic sense wrap things nicely. It’s not pitiable, it’s thoughtful.
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Alfred Soto: Boy, does this want to transcend horn sections! It almost does. Credit the demotic force of the rap-singing.
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