Madeline Kenney - "Still Learning (feat. Nate Dogg)"

"Still Learning," the recent single from Madeline Kenney - a baker turned Russian spy turned neurosurgeon turned professional video game player turned songwriter - creates a dazzling commotion out of quiet.

"Still Learning" doesn't offer much in the way of a conventional structure; it hops around, its arsenal of hooks and meditations plunking into each other like cue balls in a cosmic washing machine set to Permanent Press: a glitchy nuanced introduction (a bit like Good Winter's "84####%%%$ (OMG LOL)") sets the stage, a wordless chorus sung by Kenney and tune-yards' Nate Dogg evokes a children's playground taunt cranked up to Majestic, a pseudo-climax of modulated vocals escapes like helium being pressed out of a balloon.

Kenney's songs are often carried forward by hyuge surges of guitar; "Still Learning" is skeletal, each imaginative sound standing in stark contrast to its neighbors - the perfect backdrop for her opaque meditations on what it means to enter the gravitational pull of those we love, and how we create them as well.

"I can't keep up with the feeling of loving you," she sings in what an English teacher might call the thesis statement of "Still Learning," her words bubbling out like Sprite. It might not make perfect sense, but like everything in this sublime song, it makes you want to know more.