Juan Maclean - Simple Life - 12" Vinyl

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200272732314
UPC:
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Album:
Simple Life
Artist:
Juan Maclean
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
827932220319

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The Simple Life," the second track released from The Juan Maclean's forthcoming album, The Future Will Come, clocks in at a lean 8:38. Considering the first single, "Happy House," was twelve minutes plus, one would assume Maclean's album was nothing but this sort of thing. This could not be further from the truth. These are the bookends--"The Simple Life" begins the album, "Happy House" closes it, and what lies in between will be heard soon enough.
"The Simple Life" is an effective mixture of dark, arpeggiated synth and militant Italo disco drumming, with each bassline and chord change a step toward the light, which in this case belongs to Nancy Whang and the melancholy ambience she exudes. Whang trades verses back and forth with Maclean himself, who comes on like a robot in therapy, slowly enunciating love confessions like "Promises I never meant, it's just what I had to do."

For the remix, DFA was thrilled to be able to work with Marcus Worgull, who has released classic singles on Berlin's Innervisions label. Worgull adds a lush warmth and wide open, spaced-out element to both the arrangements and vocals, breaking up the narrative into sound snippets that take on new meaning. It is a remix in which to get lost on the dance floor and in your headphones.

Riding high on their success playing with Cut Copy in Australia and at a slew of European festivals, The Juan Maclean are on tour through September. "Happy House" remains a massive international club hit spun ubiquitously from Ibiza to Santo's Party House in NYC. It was BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong's "Essential New Tune of the Week" and Mixmag's "Single of the Month" in May 2008.