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VOICE NOTE

THE VOICEMAIL FROM MARCH

Builds every track around a recording of somebody real saying something they did not know was being kept

style

  • emotional house
  • UK garage shuffle
  • sampled spoken voice notes looped as the hook
  • warm piano chords
  • breakbeat drums
  • intimate found-sound production
  • british accent
  • euphoric and heartbroken at once
  • british accent
  • euphoric

the numbers

bpm
129
key
E major
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.53
vocal at
5.3s
length
7:59
words
130
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “rush” ×10 · “said” ×5 · “back” ×4

shared with the crate: 24 other songs use “kitchen”

lyrics

(sampled: "call me back yeah? no rush. no rush.")
(same clip, chopped)

He left it on a Tuesday and I never called him back
Not for any reason, just the way a week goes by
And then it was a month and then the message that I lack
The courage to reply to is the last thing I have got

And I have played it forty times
And "no rush" is the cruellest thing that anybody said

("no rush, no rush, no rush")
(piano, breakbeat, euphoric)
("call me back yeah?")

His mum said use it if it helps, she said it in the kitchen
And I said are you sure and she said "he'd have liked the sound"

("no rush, no rush, no rush")
("call me back yeah?")

("no rush.")