His Name is Alive “In My Dream”

If “In My Dream” (mp3) held on for four-plus minutes to its “21st Century Schizoid Man”-via-Four Tet opening gambit, I’d be very happy. But then it pulls its sultry female vocalist from behind the curtain and puts her so close to the microphone I can feel it in my spine. Honestly, it doesn’t matter a whit what she says–it all comes across in the delivery. But that she says “In my dream it’s beautiful/We go down at the same time”, and Warn Defever periodically drops the beat out to accentuate her loveliness, and just keeps returning to that monster-truck sax lick makes me overjoyed. The combination of hidden genius producer and vixen frontwoman is as old as the stars (or at least as Bacharach/Warwick), and when it’s done right, as it is here, its wondrous.