"Happy 10th birthday KittyWu!!! My pick is perhaps too obvious, but I couldn’t help it. '4207' by Amateur Takes Control is anthemic without a single lyric.
I think this song alone contains the collective consciousness of so many in our generation: scores of restless and disillusioned youths who found each other – and themselves – in the fog and filth of blurry Home Club nights. The track is inscrutable joy and angst all at once, an impossible paradox of both mathematical virtuosity and raw unfettered emotion.
When I am a frail nonagenarian on my death bed, I will listen to this song as an homage to the crucial years that made me who I am — that gave me who I love."
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credits
from 10 for 10,
track released October 10, 2008
from You, Me And The Things Unsaid, released October 10, 2008
All songs written and performed by Amateur Takes Control.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nick Chan at Wallwork Studios, Singapore.
Produced by Nick Chan and Amateur Takes Control.
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