When Hot Chip Went To School, Some Carried Lunch in a Bag, Though I Imagine Some Must Have Used Lunchboxes.

The Pharcyde's "Passin' Me By" is really the closest thing that Delicious Vinyl has to a torch song, save the group's own "Runnin'". J-Swift's factory floor production underscores four rhymes whose pervasive sense of regret and defeat is too on the nose to ever be mistaken for the sly humor of a lament like Skee Lo's "I Wish"- the whole thing resonates like a collective hip hop Love in the Time of Cholera.

Off the same LP as this week's Peaches/Tone Loc remix, Delicious Vinyl's RMXOLOGY, Hot Chip have wisely let the cracked howl of the chorus, and indeed much of the original track speak for itself. Mournful, tinny guitars spike a dreary organ wheeze to flesh the whole thing out, and I'm suddenly a little too introspective for a summer Friday in New York.

This is music to walk home in the rain to. Alone.

The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By (Hot Chip Remix)"