The Singles Jukebox

Like a less ambitious Darren Hayes…

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Scott Mildenhall: It’s an unexpected alchemy: a quite bland old Bruno Mars track gets an equally bland and formalist reinterpretation by Sam Tompkins, before being reanimated into this twitchy, cybotronic current. It feels far more emotionally textured than either of its sources, even if the lyrics are not. Credit goes to TikTok: if talent shows were still the main outlet for rote displays of vocal ability, such innovation mightn’t emerge.
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Katie Gill: It’s not a good sign when I’m Googling the song not to learn more about the artists, but to make sure that this isn’t some dumb crypto shit (results inconclusive). Anyway, it’s a perfect thirty seconds to score the background of your TikTok that got stretched into two minutes and thirty seconds because that thirty seconds were the only part of the song actually written.
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Tobi Tella: It’s repetitive to a fault, but the sound really manages to hit on that “slightly otherworldly” vibe. If you’re gonna give some mediocre bars I appreciate at least giving it some twinkle in the background!
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Wayne Weizhen Zhang: The Gunna remix adds even more layers of fun, but the original “TO THE MOON” still delivers an infectious mix of UK drill, dexterous flows, and sad white boy vibes. It’s ubiquity on TikTok is a pleasant, even welcome surprise. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Drill isn’t meant for me, I don’t think, whether it’s my age or inherent tastes, and this is a perfect clarification of that. You might like this track’s spacy tenor or weirdly manipulated sample of Tompkins’s Bruno Mars cover; I like neither, and rapper Jnr Choi adds nothing to it for me.
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Ian Mathers: The different sonic elements and treatments here have a real chocolate and peanut butter quality — or maybe chocolate mint, since that one is apparently more contentious, but I still love it. There are bits that feel clean, soaring, gliding; and ones that are more fuzzy, rounded and wibbly-wobbly. They all go together pretty nicely.
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