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January 1st 1970.
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Of all the things that make Woolfy's "Looking Glass" a beautiful song, the most beguiling is how it deftly defies expectations. It comes on slowly, all sighing synths and percolating percussion, but unfolds into something unexpected: a solid indie-dance track that is simultaneously upbeat, catchy, mournful and evocative. The chorus, sung in his downcast vocals, is as heartbreaking as the lyrics suggest: 'Don't take your / Eyes off me / You're leaving / And I'm looking lost' (I'm filling up!). Of the many standouts on Woolfy's 2009 "If You Know What's Good For Ya!!" album, "Looking Glass" is most arresting of all. This 12" also includes ace reworks: The first is from DJ, producer and Cynic label head 'Foolish Felix' Dickinson, who does away with the track's synth-pop foundation and infuses it with the sounds of old-school acid house as hypnotic beats and squelchy, rubbery bass take center stage. There's even a slow-down-speed-up bit! The second remix comes via Australian DJ duo Canyons, AKA Leo Holiday and Ryan Sea-Mist. Canyons' remix fills the track so full of sadness and solitude, it feels like every element - the ruminating guitar; the lonesome, hanging piano; the stormy synthesized rumblings - was recorded in the vastness of a painted desert. Even as things pick up abit in the second half of the song with a new found beat, Woolfy's echoing refrain rings as distant and forlorn as ever. All together, the sum of these twilight parts makes for an even greater and disquietingly gorgeous whole.