St. Lucia – We Got It Wrong (Starsmith Remix)
Sometimes a song is so good you just want to cast its essence in bronze and hang it in the National Gallery where families of Taiwanese tourists can take illegal flash photos of it and fly them around the globe. Sometimes a remix does this for you, which is nice, because where the hell do you get tin anymore? Enter All Things Gold 003 alumnus Starsmith, whose reworking of St. Lucia’s “We Got It Wrong” from Neon Gold Records elevates and pays tribute to the original with a mastery unseen since Donatello transformed raw molten metals into enduring paragons of triumph. Caribbean-style pop is hard to nail without sounding forced and gimmicky, and even harder to expand on without falling into easy traps like “more steel drums!” If St. Lucia is the island to visit, Starsmith is the airline attendant making sure to check your dreary baggage curbside. And no, it won’t be waiting for you when you land.
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