Actress condenses a whole album's worth of Carmen Villain into an eight-minute track that could be a Hazyville outtake.
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When Carmen Villain sent the stems for her entire album for Actress to choose the track of his choice, he pulled a rather Aphex move and decided to rework the whole thing in one eight-minute track. Unsurprisingly, the result—titled, simply, "Carmen Villain"—sounds more like an Actress original than a remix, and in that case it would've been an original of the highest order.
The first half's lopsided-stomp has shades of the greyscale, wounded electro of Hazyville, but about halfway through some delay-drenched chords roll in like rainclouds. Their haunting, melodica-like whines lend a bit more of Carmen Villain's mournful style to the track, her vibrant lines set against Actress' choppy waters. As a remix by a producer as idiosyncratic as Actress, "Carmen Villain" is pretty much the ideal: a new Actress track and a clever rework all in one, extending the reach of one of the year's most understatedly beautiful records.