The past was a long time ago. Dance your memories with: The Non-Functional Saints – Sticky Feet Dancing (dub mix) @nonfunsaints

Teeing up tomorrow’s Ambient Sunday we have the return of The Non-Functional Saints with their downtempo new Sticky Feet Dancing track in a dub mix version that stretches both backwards and forwards in time.

The Non-Functional Saints are Nick Lewis and Phil Minns. The name is a conjunction of their respective artist names and they spread themselves across Bristol and Berlin. This track, though, is the first made from a distance. They last appeared here eighteen months ago just before Covid hit.

Sticky Feet Dancing has a reflective quality that seeps nostalgia, an imagined nirvana and yearning through every note. There’s a fully vocal version of the track but it talks of, I would give an hour for a minute when time seemed infinite and the reminders of days gone by in, Sweaty come-ups and sticky feet dancing, stutter stutter talk talk to that pretty girl from school school. 

Musically, it’s fragments of tinkling piano with soft chords. The beats are tinny and lost in the 80s. Everything has a reverbed and dubbed air. The rock star is past. The here and now is more constrained. More adult. No more dramatic gestures. A melancholic guitar weeps gently.

Revisit, reuse, reminisce.

~ by acidted on September 18, 2021.