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Have I already said I have a hard time with instrumental music? I like a lot of it, but I think what grabs me is so often a lyric, or a vocal performance, that it's not very often that I can point at a single instrumental track and say "Oh yeah, I really love this one."

Elaenia is a really great combination of jazz and electronic music and I heartily recommend it as a whole, but the only single track that sticks in my brain mostly does so because of its last three or so seconds. Turns out it's the last track on the album, but I had to sample almost every track to recall that. Turns out those three seconds stick in my brain because "Peroration Six" is basically one big five minute long build up to them. The through lines are the jazzy, funky drums and what sounds like a heavily processed guitar jamming irregularly on two notes a half step apart, but there's plenty of other ambience and subtle glitchy electronica that layers up as the track goes on. It's a boiling-frog effect, such that you barely even notice how intense it's gotten until maybe four minutes in, at which point the cymbals start going crazy and it's like, oh boy, here it comes. And then... well, I don't want to give it away. I just think that what happens at the very end of this track is perfect in a very specific, fairly brutal way. And since the whole track is really just a big lead up to that, yeah, I guess I'd say: I really love this one.