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On "Only You" Jimi Charles Moody Captures the Stillness and Fuckery of Love

Long-term, short-term, one-night: all of these moments burn bright here.

Of all the different genres of music in the world – rock, space-age funk straight from the mothership, the kind of weird techno that won't stop ringing around your ears when leaving the club – there's a certain kind that operates within the realms of stillness. It's not really genre specific, more so a certain feeling that sits somewhere between Slowdive and ambient music.

The latest track from Jimi Charles Moody operates in this smooth, of the moment arena. Sure, it's strictly about someone stripping you bare and leaving you for dead. But it's also more than that. The scenarios, really, are endless: a couple, married for at least 20 years, dancing in the living room at 2AM and still hopelessly in love; late teens, asleep on the train on their first date, playing it with one headphone in each year; drunkenly hooking up with someone you've only met that evening and playing this song in the silent aftermath, thinking, feeling – mostly, revelling in the stillness of being, before wondering who is going to fuck over who in the next 24 hours.

Furthermore this is some soulful shit. Listen below and think about all the unrequited loves, the crushes of the future, the rare moments that seem to tie everything about life together in a way that is unspeakable but sits at the very core of this song.

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