Touch Sensitive, "Known Better" and "Veronica"
Since it's Black Friday, that annual festival of overconsumption, I've got a double dose of songs from the fantastic new album by Australia's Touch Sensitive. As someone who only started listening to pop radio religiously in the early 90s, the production on these tracks is like a series of Proustian madeleines in audio form.
"Known Better" combines the shuffling beat from countless early 90s pop tracks with the sproingy sound I immediately recognize from Genesis' "I Can't Dance," then adds a pillowy, George Michael-style white soul vocal:
"Veronica" is funkier and filthier, a cross between Natural Selection's "Do Anything," Michael Jackson's "In the Closet", and the Janet Jackson/Luther Vandross duet "The Best Things in Life are Free." Except none of those songs just came out and asked "Am I the one you want to fuck all the time?" like this song does:
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