Fractures - Block (I'm not what you need)

When did Fractures start making music this openly heartbroken? Block, subtitled ‘I’m not what you need’, is the kind of electronic-soul record that wears its sadness on the outside, all cracked falsetto and a beat that drags its feet on purpose. The Australian producer has always had a voice that sounds a little bruised, and here he leans all the way into it over production that stays deliberately sparse until it doesn’t. The drop, if you can even call it that, comes at 2:05 and it’s less a drop than a swell, the whole track blooming outward for about thirty seconds before folding back in on itself. I’ve listened to it three times and each time that swell got me a little worse. This is late-night music for people going through something, the sonic equivalent of a text you typed out and didn’t send. It won’t fill a dancefloor and it isn’t trying to. Sometimes you want the track that just sits in the feeling with you and doesn’t offer any solutions.

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