“Velvet” by Big Pink

"Velvet" was the Big Pink's second single and their first on 4AD, out as a download and a seven-inch in April 2009, before it landed on their debut album, A Brief History of Love, that September. Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell wrote it, the band produced it themselves and Alan Moulder mixed it, with Akiko Matsuura on drums and Lauren Jones adding vocals.

Pitchfork heard something enormous that still managed to feel intimate, then ranked it number 500 on its list of the decade's top tracks and 42nd among the tracks of 2009. Gang Gang Dance turned it into a seven-minute remix, Mount Kimbie took a turn too, and the 12-inch paired it with a cover of Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine". Lykke Li made a habit of covering it on her 2011 Wounded Rhymes Tour.

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