Flume, "Tiny Cities" feat. Beck (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)

That was the easy part.

Well, you did it. You made it to Friday. Yes, it was a short week, and nobody expected too much out of you, but an accomplishment is an accomplishment and I want to congratulate you. You knocked that first week down. Now you just have to do it 51 more times, at full speed, to finish out the year. Of course for most of it Donald Trump will be president and terrible things will be happening to your country and world. Plus there is still so much winter to get through. So much winter. But right now it’s Friday and you survived. Concentrate on that. The bad stuff will wait for you. It’s nothing if not patient, the bad stuff.

Anyway, some days I am of the opinion that the greatest cultural achievement of this rapidly aging decade happens to be the Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix of Haim’s “Forever,” which means I might be more receptive than most to that duo’s reconstruction of the Flume/Beck track “Tiny Cities.” But oh my God, it’s so good. As terrible as everything else is, that’s how great this is. For the ten minutes it’s playing you can almost convince yourself things may be okay, or at least stop thinking about how awful they actually are. It’s not going to change your life, this track, but it will distract you from what your life is, and in these troubled times that is almost as good. Enjoy.