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Your Woman

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The opening riff from that toy trumpet is unmistakable, an instant hook, unique to this song--smart production--its tone and timbre highly reminiscent of the traditional death march, even ovoking a little bit of the classic St. James Infirmary. It harkens well back to the 1932 original from which this tune is built.

Then that chugging, mid-pace beat comes in, with a subtly clubby keyboard riff, and it's somewhere highly accessible between the Cure and hip hop. And then you get that thin, old-timey vocal pushed througha Victrola speaker, faux mono, and I'm hearing echoes of Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok," even Aqualung's title track.

Ah, but to my listening the words are deeper than this AM pop veneer would lead you to believe. Pay attention and it's not just boy v. girl, failed relationships, doubt and inadequacy, but the very nature of gender identification, gender roles, and the interplay between government and the governed.

Or, you could just dance to it.