Description
2020, 12″ EP, Ad Hoc Records.
Alps 2 come to Ad Hoc with a sound that will get a whole lot of listeners feeling misty eyed for good times in well-stocked festival tents. There are unmistakable whiffs of Floating Points and Four Tet in the likes of ‘Burnt’, which positively emit vitamin D vibes out of the speakers, so infectious is the summery mood contained within those luscious synths. ‘Arnda E’ has a deeper, knottier quality but it’s still a resolutely sweet track, while ‘Duck Tape’ heads into more fractured territory with a chopped up RnB vocal that calls back to the heyday of future garage. ‘Empting’ completes this effervescent EP with a more abstract piece that showcases the variety at this breakthrough producer’s disposal. – Juno