A quick peruse of the comments below the Soundcloud link for MJ COLE's remix of LANA DEL REY's 'Ride' suggests that while you might love the track, and you might love the beats, you won't necessarily dig them all at once.
Certainly, there is something about the urgent tempo and the way the beat lags just behind the vocal line that sounds somewhat disjointed. It's almost as if two tracks with mismatched percussive backbones are being played simultaneously. This 1.5x speed effect (technical speak for the effect made when you press fast forward on the DVD just a fraction) may be jarring for some.
The disjunctive tension builds throughout the 5 minutes, as the unsettling ambience of the electronica pushes the track forward at an almost frenetic pace. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's well worth the listen, as there is something disturbingly sexy about Lana's troubled tones, buried beneath a fog of an insistent beat.
Words by Rebecca McCann, check out her street on POSSE.COM
