“This song, on breakfast radio?! It was such a shock, ‘What?! When did the world change that this belongs here?’ Mad. It didn’t make sense”: The story of Born Slippy, Underworld’s emotion-triggering masterwork

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Music’s power to affect our emotions is one of its most essential qualities, but also one of its most beguiling mysteries. Just how do melodies lift (or lower) our mood? and why is it that certain chord progressions somehow lasso our feelings and drag them in-step? Whatever the reason, listening to music is unquestionably the quickest way to dredge up half-faded memories and bring them back the forefront of our minds.

One of the most poignant illustrations of music’s special relationship to nostalgia occurs during Danny Boyle’s 2017 sequel to his 1996 classic film, Trainspotting.