But not afraid to blurb!

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Thomas Inskeep: There’s a cottage industry in the UK right now of DJs making house records based around vocal samples from other records – especially from the ’90s and ’00s. But this single from a Scottish duo is something different, and special. They took a vocal by Debra Henry, from the Philly International soul group Silk (from a deep cut, “I Can’t Stop (Turning You On),” on their 1979 album Midnight Dancer), and didn’t just loop it; they speed it up, slow it down, and play with the track they made to surround the vocal. Most records of this ilk run a lyric into the ground atop a simple dance beat, but this has genuine thought and innovation in its bones, and I can’t get enough of it. (It’s also a killer earworm.) 
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Ian Mathers: This is one of those cases where it’s worth checking out the source material to see what exactly they grabbed from it and what they did with that. The question isn’t whether they grabbed the best bit (often counterproductive!) but you can definitely spot check whether the rerub is worth listening to when the original is out there. “Afraid to Feel” is a pretty solid example of taking a bit that might have passed most by in the original song and making such an indelible hook (here via doing several variations on it, all pretty successful) that it does stand on its own instead of just riding coattails. Even from a home listening remove it feels like it would just be brutally effective on a dancefloor, which bumps it up.
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Harlan Talib Ockey: Apparently this is a house take on a disco edit, but what is a disco edit for if not extensive build-ups and hypnotic flow states? This careens between sections so swiftly and abruptly that it seems genuinely impractical to dance to. The vigorous bass and keys do go incredibly hard; these elements are from Silk’s original, though, and ultimately I’m not sure anything LF System added stands out as particularly worthwhile. I also have to question the decision to re-record Silk’s track, rather than sampling it directly. I can’t find any indication that this was necessary due to copyright issues, only that LF System wanted to cut any possible red tape by doing so, denying Silk potential royalties for use of a sample in the process. And you can’t even dance to it.
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Alfred Soto: What I’ve always wanted — what sounds like a Justice remix of the Silk evergreen.
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Katherine St Asaph: One of those cases where the source material is good enough already that any “remake”/”cover”/”interpolation”/”sample replay”/hook colonization can only lose points, in this case by futzing with the tempo for no discernible reason besides Conor Larkman and/or Sean Finnigan saying they did something. Change the speed, get the lead.
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Andrew Karpan: Nostalgia for misremembered vibes.
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Samson Savill de Jong: This has such strong 2008-2010 YouTube vibes. I’m yet to decide if that’s a compliment or not.
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