This track came out late last summer. it’s been getting major spins around here lately, renewed with bubbling interest in Frank Ocean. Stacy Barthe, though, is no slouch herself. Like Ocean, she’s a songwriter by trade, (she penned Ciara’s “Flaws and Allâ€), but this track reveals her to be master of minimalism, slinking across a barren landscape of laser noise and brittle snare. Even her hum is heavy. Towards the song’s end, Ocean comes in to confess that he kept a pair of your panties under my pillowcase—lightly creepy, but sweet in context. Barthe, a member of precocious Surf Club, has a mini-mixtape out, called The Tape, that is worth checking out, too.
Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2011/05/18/stacy-barthe-f-frank-ocean-without-you-mp3/#ixzz1Mi7v0Zqp
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