C O D E | PLEASURE

A slinky slice of pop existentialism with its central theme being the search for meaning versus the pursuit of pleasure, but our inability to find either. A slow, pulsing bassline runs throughout, while sinuous and dreamy synths morph around it, constantly shifting the tone as the vocal laments: “I’ll give you everything you want, I’ll show you how you can forget, the truth is you have always known, how can it be so hard?” The introduction of a screaming synth melody recalls Robert Fripp’s late 1970s work with David Bowie and lifts ‘Pleasure’ from being merely a cool pop song to an edgy and anthemic techno masterpiece as we are carried through to its end with the thought that we are somehow transformed and illuminated, while the ‘meaning/pleasure’ circle has been squared.