{"id":803698,"date":"2020-01-31T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945044"},"modified":"2020-01-31T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:57:33","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-too-free-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-too-free-atm\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need To Know: Too Free, \u2018ATM\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TooFree.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever lost yourself to a house banger, eyes closed on a sweaty 6 a.m. dance floor, then you know exactly the body feeling that a track like Too Free\u2019s \u201cATM\u201d elicits. If you haven\u2019t, close your eyes with your headphones turned all the way up: Now you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cATM,\u201d short for \u201call the moments,\u201d feels nostalgic, particularly in its nod to the history of Nineties house tracks made by black artists from Chicago to Detroit to London. (Aly-Us\u2019s 1992 Jersey house anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_fdOPvmBrI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFollow Me,\u201d<\/a> or Crystal Waters\u2019s 1991 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_KztNIg4cvE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGypsy Woman (She\u2019s Homeless),\u201d<\/a> maybe the most-spun vocal house song ever, come to mind.) It\u2019s also current in its production: The structure of the song builds piece by piece, from the plodding bass sample to the creepy, descending chopped-marimba melody to the bongos and the 808 beat. It\u2019s a hard line to walk, paying homage with a modern spin, but Too Free pulls it off with perfectly restrained swagger.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the Washington, D.C. trio\u2019s lead vocalist, Awad Bilal, spent time as a live dancer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/big-freedia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-freedia\" data-tag=\"big-freedia\">Big Freedia<\/a>; his sultry vocals drip with the same \u201cFuck with me or don\u2019t\u201d confidence. It also makes sense that Too Free\u2019s programmer\/drummer\/vocalist Carson Cox used to play in Merchandise, who made music for 4AD, the longstanding UK label that\u2019s always had its finger on the pulse of new waves of art-dance. The confluence of vibes is what makes \u201cATM\u201d feel just right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018No Fun\u2019 is a series of affirmations that I wanted to speak into existence,\u201d Bilal says in a press statement. \u201cReclaiming agency over your mind and your body \u2014 accepting love and using it to activate others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaby, catch me in color\/Luxury notice\/All you could ask for,\u201d he sings on the song. Whether crooned to a partner or a stranger, in the club or during a daily chore, this might seem like a small ask. But acknowledgement is never a given, and the tiniest gesture of opening one\u2019s eyes can mean everything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/too-free-atm-song-you-need-to-know-945044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever lost yourself to a house banger, eyes closed on a sweaty 6 a.m. dance floor, then you know exactly the body feeling that a track like Too Free\u2019s \u201cATM\u201d elicits. If you haven\u2019t, close your eyes with your headphones turned all the way up: Now you know. \u201cATM,\u201d short for \u201call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 01:48:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}