What do you feel when you hear the crackling hiss of a vinyl record?

For many of us it brings about a sensation of warmth.

There's a unique physicality captured in the needle digging into the grooves, the hum

of a whirling record, the unpredictable pops and crackles.

There's something about it that feels real. But technically speaking, these

are all blemishes. Popping sounds are produced by small particles of dust or dirt on the

record. Hissing is a byproduct of using magnetic tape or

worn needle among other issues. And yet what's produced by these flaws are what we

love about vinyl. They're why a lot of us prefer it to the perfectly clean technically flawless

experience of digital media. In other words, sometimes imperfections are the

very things that make something perfect.

From Spotify, I'm Cole Kushna and this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

Today we continue our serialized examination

of Mac Miller swimming with its fourth track, Perfecto. Oh, yeah. Oh, well. Oh, well.

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Oh, you know. So, the the Perfecto was produced by T.W

with additional production by John Bryan. In the song's opening moments we hear the main

chord progression established on what sounds like a Marimba. But like every track on swimming so

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