With its deep-house heartbeat, shakers swaying like hips, and ethereal synth pads that roll in from the ocean, celebrated trumpeter Theo Croker floats jazztronica tempos into the cosmos on the one “excessive vibrations”. There’s an early sense of hypnosis that’s not rushed, simply patterned and exact: looped pads swell out and in of part whereas vocal-shaped synth textures hum overhead. By the point the glass-bottle percussion faucets into the combo’s midsection, the monitor’s already gone from coastal pulse to cosmic sail.
Singer MALAYA pulls up candy and sun-lit, all sugar tones and rhythmic raise. She rides the tune’s bossa-house BPM as if she’s breezing via freeway lanes with one hand on the wheel and the opposite out the window. She sings in candy declarations, stretching out strains like “Lovely ache / And exquisite pleasure.” Her voice flickering between the glow and the gravity of her lyrics.
There’s a beat flip tucked mid-track that seems like the ground reshaping itself beneath your ft. D’LEAU (fka Brook D’Leau from J*DaVeY fame) trims the beat into one thing tighter and trickier. His synth leads skip like flat stones throughout the rhythm whereas Theo threads his horn via the commotion – dropping in strains that transfer sharp and staccato at first, then stretch into one thing hotter.
By the ultimate downbeat, the entire thing seems like a slow-motion spin via some Carnaval bloco—horns nonetheless flying, drums nonetheless dancing, our bodies shifting free as the sunshine fades out.
