The producer and filmmaker Viola Klein makes house music that, with a trained, jazzy hand, knocks the tropes of the genre off its axis. The artist’s new three-tracker demonstrates her talent for coloring both inside and outside of the lines. Opener “Boldness” has a vertiginous swing; when paired with drunken MIDI brass, the track hits like a foggy stroll through a cruise ship corridor. “Snooze” is just as—and excuse me here—liminal. It pulls from and abstracts the house music playbook. The track's outro interplay between cymbal sizzle and piano drizzle pulls it out of dance music entirely. Closer “Love in Life” moves with a gospel-indebted double time pump. An inspired set.
Viola Klein - Confidant
Staff PicksJazzy, vertiginous house music.
By JB Johnson
2024/11/25
- 1Boldness
- 2Snooze
- 3Love In Life
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