Body’s ‘Building A Building’ takes one of the least romantic settings imaginable, the car park, and somehow turns it into something strange, hazy and emotionally charged.
The Kelowna-based project, led by former Hot Hot Heat member Paul Hawley, has built a reputation around skewed synths, odd textures and left-field atmospheres, and this new single pushes those instincts into particularly dreamlike territory. Unusual percussion shifts underneath detuned synths, ambient layers and close, understated vocals, creating a track that feels both familiar and slightly out of alignment.
Throughout, ‘Building A Building’ deals with dissolution, but rather than approaching the idea through obvious collapse, he lets it emerge through fragments: heat, movement, errands, children in cars, and the strange inertia of everyday life. The result has the quality of a memory that keeps changing shape while you are trying to hold onto it.
There’s also something cinematic in the way the track moves between the mundane and the surreal. A parking lot becomes almost architectural, background noise takes on symbolic weight, and small details begin to feel loaded with meaning.
The production also suits that approach as Hawley leaves plenty of negative space around the arrangement, while James Younger’s mix preserves the warped edges. The result is immersive without becoming overly dense.
Unsettling, atmospheric and quietly absorbing, it finds Body turning ordinary surroundings into something much more elusive; further proof that the strangest places are sometimes the ones we pass through every day.