The songs comprising ‘Blush’ flicker and glow like captured moonlight. It’s a rush of nostalgia felt but vaguely recalled; visions of lost euphoria made bittersweet by time. On this project, Europa unravels highly recognisable lead melodies from decades past, reforging and equipping them with sleek, metallic new musical armour built to defy time.
‘Exo’ ravily interpolates Salt-N-Pepa’s iconic ‘Push It’, while ‘Gazebo’ recontextualises universally beloved club masterpiece ‘I Remember’. The thick slabs of reinforced synth at the heart of ‘What’s This?’ flex and pulse in a show of contained force, a contrast to the soft landing of delicate closer ‘Little Crash’. This EP is a slow rush of concentrated pleasure, it tingles and squeezes and sighs — this EP is a blush.