Pitchfork

For the remix, the DFA's Tim Goldsworthy's "Loving Hand" had an abundance of source material to rifle through, considering the Maps' original: a richly-produced, lump-in-the-throat lament packed with chimes, arpeggios, and tightly woven harmonies generously dipped in a caramelized batter of reverb. Non-essential flourishes are Maps soundsmith James Chapman's first language, and for his original piece, they serve to render fullness and pop out of a bitter take on unanswered prayers, and that vanquished sense of self called regret.

Goldsworthy, on the other loving hand, explores that emptiness by taking a scalpel to the record, dissecting its melodies over his sterile boilerplate beat. The gossamer textures and oozing sentimentalism are detached in the process, but that's just how the DFA do surgery: numb the pain, poke the wound. His approach rubs a particularly soft nerve when the subject matter is loss, and the mix pays off as it evolves. Chapman's syrupy vocals ride in in for barely three minutes out of nine. Meanwhile, the melody shifts to a plump sub-bass pattern, as the record gathers moss towards a sonically crass, yet transparent, unassuming, and above all wordless finale: a rolling tour through Nile Rodgers' neighborhood.