Producer Alex Crossan is each acclaimed and never feted sufficient. The Guernsey-born polymath gained a Grammy for a 2018 Haim remix; just lately, he collaborated with PinkPantheress on her hit Boy’s a Liar. However his personal stuff is relentlessly above par.
Crossan’s fourth album finds him on his personal label, Pond, and constructing a bodily arts hub in Peckham, south London (additionally referred to as Pond); he’s additionally placing out a number of the most rhythmically creative earworms of his profession. A beneficiant proportion of Curve 1’s tracklisting has already been launched – tunes such because the nimble-footed Gimme, whose shapeshifting manufacturing invokes the rave period, or We Are Making Out, a slab of electroclash that options Singaporean artist Yeule declaiming about tongue tag on numerous modes of London Transport (“We’re making out on the DLR”). At any time when I Need seems like an indirect anthem to liberating failure. “I’m allowed to fuck up at any time when I need,” runs a vocal pattern, the swish of drum’n’bass offset by a blithe keyboard line.
The rest is hardly filler. Giddyp seems like early hyperpop, with Crossan enjoying with BPMs all through (“Up! Down!”), whereas there’s some era-perfect two-step on Shuf (Adore U). All through, exhausting dancefloor motion by no means comes on the expense of wistful, bittersweet feeling.
