The drum programming on this track is wild! It’s like Autechre made a UK garage cut. This makes sense, considering the collaborators: Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and Los Angeles modular synth master Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. “Neptunes” merges upfront dancefloor concerns and wonky textual movements. A ragga vocal floats over dubwise bass. Modular synth flecks crinkle over skippy house drums. The track finds some stasis between a kind of British dance traditionalism and something more exploratory. Which is to say that it will make all the sense in the world to a punter engulfed in fog and laser on the dancefloor.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard - Neptunes
Staff PicksBanging and wonky.
By JB Johnson
2024/09/25
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