LAR - Dragging You Down

Where LAR’s other recent cut floats, Dragging You Down has more pull to it — there’s a gentle undertow in the groove that quietly earns the title. It trades some of the airy openness for a slightly heavier, more insistent bassline, the kind that nudges you onto the floor rather than letting you drift past it. The vocal fragments drift in and out like half-heard conversation through a wall, processed down into pure texture rather than anything you’d sing along to. What I appreciate about hearing two LAR tracks close together is how clearly they’re cut from the same cloth and yet aim at completely different parts of the night. This one’s later, darker, a touch more dancefloor than the headphones, where the other is the warm-up. The restraint is still very much there, but it’s coiled tighter, with more intent behind every loop. Deep house this controlled is genuinely hard to make sound effortless, and LAR makes it look easy twice over without repeating himself.

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