The riff is circling from the first bar — one guitar line doubled a hair out of step, so it shimmers — and the drums sit light and ticking underneath.

Over the churn, a soft voice floats a short call every few bars, plenty of air in between.

The lead voice steps in mid-register, dry and close, and the riff simply keeps cycling beneath it.

At the refrain the voice leaps up an octave and presses harder; the band adds nothing, just the same turning figure.

A high answering voice arrives behind the lead now — thinner, set farther back, tossing the phrase back.

With the voice away, the riff turns on alone, the fixed thing everything else leans against.

The delivery turns quick and talky here, syllables crowding forward, though the floor stays as unhurried as ever.

A rougher lead guitar moves to the front, bending hard — the sharpest change in the surface yet — over a floor that hasn't shifted.

The solo steps aside and the voice takes the melody straight back; nothing is added, the song keeping to its one shape.

The octave leap returns, and this time the high answers pile in almost on top of it.

Back to the opening shape: spaced calls over the circling riff, with a lower voice buried deep in the middle of the mix.

That buried voice has slipped away — just the spaced calls and the turning riff, the frame showing through.

The floor lets go, drums and riff easing out from under the calls.

One last chord, struck and left hanging, the doubled strings shimmering out of step until the room goes quiet.