![]() Cross thirty seconds and thinks get WILD. Hi hats moving at impossible speeds, tires screeching, chi composed - moving gracefully through the chaos. 22 seconds in and there’s a breath of relief. The darkest jersey beat you’ll ever hear bursting underneath a raging synth and angry guitar lead. ![]() ![]() Some beeps, a scream, the riser, it’s boiling up and it’s only been a few seconds. It’s just so beautiful, so well done, and feels so right to have a Dijon cover in a MMM project. The song closes as we come back to ourselves, a gradual grounding after getting all this off our chest. I’ll do my best repeated, feeling like such a genuine cry. The emotion on her sleeve, the moment breaking through, that little growl/scream finding its way out. Into the last chorus, she really goes for it and it’s perfect. The whole thing seeming to grow up and around McCassim, still sitting right there in the middle, with her guitar. The big supportive chords from a piano, another guitar dancing around the edges, the bass holding firm, those drums rolling around, in and out like the tide. A great chance to admire and appreciate the whole arrangement here. The I’ll do my best like a soldier saluting, knowing the work ahead is hard and scary but that she’s gotta do what she’s gotta do. Like she’s cuddling up to her love, so much desire to do right by them. The first half If it pleases is so warm and sweet. The chorus is so fantastic, and I love what McCassim did in this version. An emotional song, a powerful one, and this cover does it justice and then some. Pushing the feelings down, wanting to be enough for his partner, scared that showing this side of him will ruin(?) things. The song itself is a trip - Dijon writing on these feelings building inside him, trying to get a handle on if/how he shares, how he can move through them. I’m convinced that there’s a meanness in me seeming to drift off, as though she is reflecting on it, genuinely worried by it. McCassim’s new approach to the lyrics creates these moments of levity that feels so sincere and give the song a whole new dimension. The bass, the tambourine, the drums, all teamed up, pushing and pulling me around. The first couple lines pour out smooth, I’m convinced pulling out more raw emotion, the song falling into its signature groove. The gentle acoustic, the far-off percussion. Made to tape, the whole thing feels so intimate and warm. And boy oh boy am I so glad that world exists and we’re actually living in it rn. In the throws of putting this compilation together I shot her a note wondering if there was a world in which she blew this out into a full cover. I wrote about this on famed app,, but a while back I caught a clip Adriana posted of her on guitar - a quick cover of this Dijon song. So grateful for this one, a beautiful song that gives me chills every time, and genuinely changed my life!!! for real!! I knew it had to be the intro to the comp, such a vulnerable and pure way to kick things off and set the tone for what this project is all about. How did that happen? I really don’t know, but damn what a treat to hear. But here on full display, it feels like a magic trick. A moment, a process, normally hidden from the listener. It’s such a simple recording, but that moment there at like 0:36 and onward is so special, that perfect reaction from them both, a laugh, a damn, two people finally turning a corner and knowing when they’ve arrived. Bajar feeling for lyrics and letting the emotional guitar guide his way. Him and his collaborator searching for their footing within a gorgeous chord progression. Somehow capturing the raw energy of creating a song. Showed me just how special a project like this could be, and opened my imagination to what kind of demos and music I could be seeking out in the future. Not only is it so incredible as a piece of art, it filled my damn sails. I’m gonna be as honest as I can here - this demo changed EVERYTHING for me. And because Nathan is also just a kind person who really gets the aim of MMM, he graciously accepted and sent me this demo immediately. He was one of the first artists I thought of as I started to put this project together. With all this in tow, I’ve been eager to find more ways to write and work with Nathan. It parlayed into ‘22s Joyride EP which I haven’t stopped coming back to. ![]() Beautiful melodies, so wonderfully produced, just the kind of music that scratches some necessary itch. Such a unique voice, and I just love the energy of his songs. That summer he had put out Big Body too, and I was hooked. I wrote about his song Daydreamer back in the fall of ‘21. I’ve been a fan of Nathan Bajar’s for a while.
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