OK, so we’ve got some noisy blips and beats into a pretty piano riff with some bluesy type vocals. Think Ben Harper meets a Cure progression with a stick up its ass - seriously, that’s one stiff programmed drum beat. The one note chorus is a cool idea and Houston’s got a decent voice but the falsetto at the end of each one makes me want to murder small and infirm children.

Like the intro there are distorted blips and percussive things floating in and out that sound like they were a good idea at 3:30 am after some PBR’s and a good spliff but sound tacked on. Synthesized keys add to the cheese but there is some potential here. The drums dropping in and out work well to create a mood, the baroque arrangement is interesting and the melody carries you forward, although I feel there’s some sort of climax that never happens. You know, it could be the soundtrack to the girl looking wistfully out of the bus window as she leaves her summer love to return to the drudgery of junior year.

--Sally

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Houston Bernard - Luv (mp3)
 
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