Description
2020, 12″ EP, Island. Limited blue vinyl.
While many of Disclosure’s EPs have tended to focus on festival-ready and radio-friendly numbers, “Ecstasy” has both eyes firmly on club dancefloors. Proof arrives via the surging title track, a filter-sporting bumper that offers distinctive nods towards late ’90s “French Touch” house and Basement Jazz’s superior early work, and the gleefully Afro-disco-flavoured Echo Roosevelt collaboration that follows, stomping summer anthem “Tondo”. Elsewhere, they cannily turn Boz Scraggs’ blue-eyed soul classic “Lowdown” into a loose-limbed, rubbery house workout on “Expressing What Matters”, serve up some chant-along Afro-house hedonism (“Etran”) and keep fans of their usual bass-heavy big room flavours happy via wonky closer “Get Close”. – Juno
