Lindstrom and Prins Thomas have been revitalising the remix for a while now, stripping away all their target tracks’ instrumentation and replaying the melodies on the fuzziest of bass guitars, the twinkliest of synths and the warmest of drum kits. Here they take the Brothers self vocalled techno love song and caress it into a 9 minute pop masterpiece. There are elements of the melancholic school yard new wave of XTC, and a touch of the dusty groove of Air (I’m thinking ‘Virgin Suicides’ soundtrack). The vocal itself (and the Chems aren’t revealing which of them is responsible) is great, pitched between 60s psychedelia and Bernard Sumner’s flattened tones. The remix has taken off from the more uncomfortable original and gloriously morphed into a hazy summer mirage of heat and longing, and deserves to be heard wherever the sun is shining for the rest of the year.
Chemical Brothers ‘Swoon’ (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Remix) by cmjct
Ian Mcquaid
