- Putting aside the spindly dance music he makes with Tom Trago, Alex Sushon has lately been allowing the warmly synthetic palette of '80s funk colour his work. On "Papaya Lipgloss," which pairs him with London keyboardist Sweyn Jupiter, he takes the approach even further, letting his grooves simmer rather than attacking with full force.
That's what he does on the "Club Mix," where Sushon lays down a barebones framework of kick drums and hand percussion as a canvas for Jupiter's doodles. The keyboardist is suave and soulful, meting out his melody in carefully defined strokes before uncoiling a jazzier lead and locking into a head-nodding groove. The pair mesh more evenly on the stellar "Sour Mix," where Jupiter's playing becomes fodder for Sushon's slamming drums and gasping chords. The second half is particularly good, as the tune gracefully slips into an outro that feels like Night-Slugs-does-lounge-music. Pointing towards the retro-future funk of artists like Dâm-Funk and B Bravo, "Papaya Lipgloss" is a nice digestif after last year's Your Charizmatic Self. Bok Bok and Sweyn Jupiter fit so effortlessly together that it's easy to imagine gobbling up a whole album of this stuff.
Lista de títulosA1 Papaya Lipgloss (Club Mix)
B1 Papaya Lipgloss (Sour Mix)