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With his impressive debut EP Eskimo, Cleveland’s Freeze-Tag displayed a taste for R&B chords, indie influences, and the occasional Neptunes and Timbaland hat-tip. Often particularly pretty in its experimentation, Eskimo provided a glimpse into the prodigious talent that now serves up “You Do,” a song that feels both more polished and more ambitious than any of its predecessors, buzzing and skittering along beneath the the singer/producer’s distant, airy vocals. Stick around for the Stankonia-grade guitar solo that smolders into gear around 1:40.
A logical extension of the style Freeze-Tag is developing and an intriguing sign of things to come.