Edwyn Collins’s ‘A Girl Like You’ captures the tumultuous echoes of desire against the backdrop of change. Its throbbing, relentless beat and swirling guitars create a timeless vortex where past and present collide, narrating the encounter with the unprecedented.
Edwyn Collins’ “A Girl Like You” jumps around a bit. In some cases the subject is the singer himself, while in others it’s the addressee, his romantic interest. And whereas it is indeed amorous in nature,...