Fairlane & DJ Mii - Over Me (feat. Ames)

Ames has one of those slightly cracked voices that makes melodic dubstep worth defending, and Over Me builds its entire first half around getting out of her way. Fairlane is a Monstercat regular who tends toward the emotional end of bass music, and this leans hard into that: a big open pre-chorus, a drop at 1:47 that’s more shimmer than sludge, all wide synths and a kick you feel in your ribs. It’s pretty in a way heavy music is often too embarrassed to be. The featured vocal does real work here rather than marking time until the bass shows up; the line about being over me gets chopped straight into the drop itself, so the hook and the heaviness become the same event instead of taking turns. I put this on expecting background music and ended up replaying the drop four times before I moved on with my day. Not everything needs teeth. Some of it just needs a chorus this good and the confidence to let it breathe.

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