- When we say a track builds, sometimes it means that it's repetitive and gains a mantra-like quality that eventually takes off. Sometimes it means the arrangement gradually gathers mass and thus momentum. In the case of Anthony Collins' "Gone Too Long," the lead cut from the three-track Under Your Spell EP, the build is easy to pinpoint: right around the four-minute mark, when the bassline suddenly starts jumping around at twice the speed it had exhibited previously. It juices a track that had mostly settled in gracefully—swaying string pads, occasional murmured wordless vocals, relaxed funk guitar undercarriage—and gives the whole thing some more bite.
"Fenceless" follows with an equally bounding bassline—here treated until it takes on a pulsating glow, with a thumb-plucked feel even though it's unlikely to have originated that way—over drums with equal throb. The whole track skitters, holding to a steady pulse but jitterbugging all over it, with a music-box tune occasionally chiming in warmly and a simple female vocal cry that gives it some early '90s flavor. A similarly busy bass anchors and directs "Waiting for You," though with less buttressing it the track does tend to disappear despite its battering. "Feeling OK" is a pleasant 12-minute digital-only closer that starts low-key and stays there.
Tracklist A Gone Too Long
B1 Fenceless
B2 Waiting for You
Digital: Feeling OK