{"id":804104,"date":"2020-02-12T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=950302"},"modified":"2020-02-12T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:03:54","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-fennec-boy-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-fennec-boy-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Fennec, \u2018Boy-U\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Fennec.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On \u201cBoy-U,\u201d a new song from Indianapolis musician Fennec, he draws from a long, illustrious line of soul-sampling house producers, creating a track that\u2019s blasting and delirious, with distant echoes of Nineties classics (Pete Heller\u2019s \u201cBig Love\u201d) or more recent triumphs in the same vein (Midland\u2019s \u201cFinal Credits\u201d) \u2014 a dance floor dream brought to life.<\/p>\n<p>The samples here are deployed with reckless glee: Fennec builds crooked towers out of vocal snippets, female voices that fly up the scale and pirouette back down, somersaulting like gymnasts and sticking difficult landings. He triggers a new sample before the first has even finished, creating a beautiful babble, a glorious assortment of warbles and trills that\u2019s hard to understand and harder to dislike. High in the mix, everything shimmers and darts; below it, a nasty disco loop does the heavy lifting, demanding movement with a domineering four-to-the-floor pound that doesn\u2019t let up for around five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Even when it seems like Fennec couldn\u2019t possibly inject more energy into the track, he finds ways to add intensity \u2014 a strafing horn section, or a sudden double-time pattern on the cymbal. And to amplify \u201cBoy-U\u201d\u2018s appeal, Fennec released a cheerful, grainy video where the footage of dancers is charmingly disconnected from the pile-driving rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBoy-U\u201d appears on&nbsp;<\/em>Free Us of This Feeling, <em>which came out at the end of January. Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/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\/fennec-boy-u-song-you-need-to-know-950302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On \u201cBoy-U,\u201d a new song from Indianapolis musician Fennec, he draws from a long, illustrious line of soul-sampling house producers, creating a track that\u2019s blasting and delirious, with distant echoes of Nineties classics (Pete Heller\u2019s \u201cBig Love\u201d) or more recent triumphs in the same vein (Midland\u2019s \u201cFinal Credits\u201d) \u2014 a dance floor dream brought to [&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-804104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 22:56:50","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\/804104","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=804104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}