One listen, and this felt pretty easy to write. I wasn’t quite in the zone but I was getting there. I was getting close enough. I don’t think what I wrote represented the song well enough, however. It describes it, but what I wrote sort of keeps distance, if that makes sense.

Underworld’s “Most ‘Ospitable” is from the CD single of “Dark & Long”.

I hope you enjoy.

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Something rises, then something pulses. Sounds trying to find their place, find what is familiar, retake a structured form. Among them something rises. Something grows. Grows louder, grows brighter, and it seems like this hopeful sound. This hopeful, fragile thing and it keeps getting bigger. It keeps growing and it’s providing some structure, and the other sounds are moved further to the side.

Underneath another sound grows. It’s something bassier, and it brings in a bit of peace. A bit of calm. Some sort of sentimentality, and some joy. Joy in innocence, perhaps, but also something that could have an undercurrent of weight. It’s difficult to tell as it could mean a lot of different things.

These two sounds move with each other, and maybe one is following the other. Maybe they take turns in following. Eventually they fade away to give space for a pulse and a continuous voice, or at least something akin to a voice, and it’s steady. Other pulses and sounds come in, finding what they were looking for before, and the bassier sound returns, and there’s a clash, but it also seems harmonious in a way. Seems climactic and, in a sense, final. But it’s not. It’s a stop along the way.

Perhaps conclusive up to that point would be a better way to put it. It speaks of a rest and a future, and maybe this moves all fast and faded, and vague and it continues on. The sound that started off hopeful and fragile returns, and some bits that feel almost percussive are here, but they are dismantled, and the continuous voice, among other sounds, disappeared before, and soon everything fades away and the song ends.