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Slow Sink: Cemetery’s “Vit”

Cemetery is the project of Kota Watanabe, who plays with (or is associated with, at least) the Ariel-Pink-worshipping project Batman Winks. Yet, as demonstrated on “Vit,” Cemetery takes its time to establish an unsettling vibe. The song wisps forward, a persistent beat and vocal samples of a conversation lurking just underneath. It isn’t quite there in making the tension stick — “Vit” is uneasy, but its sonic steadfastness makes it more of an atmospheric creep than one going further — but is an enveloping number all the same. Listen above