Love Will Say No - "This War Is Finally Lost" - (5:09) 112 BPM
Review: It's the time of the year when labels look back on the previous 12 months and offer up handy retrospective compilations featuring the strongest cuts they've released in the last year. Dirt Crew's offering, which runs to 12 tidy tracks, is one of the strongest on offer. Starting with the rolling, string-laden sweetness of J Peacock's disco-house loop jam, 'Philly Track', the collection attractively sashays between acid-flecked positivity (the summery excellence of 'Time Is The Perfect Lover' by Love Will Say So), tactile boogie-influenced deep house warmth (Idan Hanna's 'Mountain Peaks'), glassy-eyed melodiousness (Petals In Sound's spacey 'Dial Tone'), immersive excellence ('In Dreams' by Matthew Ferness), jazzy piano house (Matthew Ferness's 'The Ego') and jaunty, uplifting, melody-rich nu-disco/house fusion (Steve Mill's 'Dye The Blip').
Review: From his studio in northern Italy, Love Will Say No has delivered an eclectic selection of releases. This pleasingly hard-to-predict approach continues on the 'Infidels EP', a varied but uniformly enjoyable mini-album that marks his second outing on Dirt Crew Recordings. He begins with ' Carry The Fire', a musically expansive affair in which bleeping melodic motifs and moody chords rise above a loose deep house groove, before injecting an acid-fired house rhythm with funky disco bass and sun-splashed pads on 'Time Is The Perfect Lover'. He then dashes between French Touch influenced loop-house ('You'll Know When'), extra-percussive space-house ('Gonna Summer'), and breath-taking piano ambient ('Red Window'), before finishing via the impossible-to-describe brilliance of 'The War is Finally Lost'.
Review: It's that time of the year when labels look back on their releases and offer-up 'best of' collections. Dirt Crew's effort is relatively slender at just seven-tracks deep, but pleasingly high on quality - itself a reflection of the German label's strong 2021. After opening with the sparkling, humid and sun-kissed deep house warmth of Clive From Accounts' gorgeous 'Gravitate', the collection flits between high-grade sample-house pleasantness (Harry Wolfman), piano-laden, synth-bass-propelled goodness (Marcus Holder), jaunty early Floating Points revivalism (Idan Hana with Black Loops), percussive and bass-heavy hedonism (the thickset sounds of Love Will Say No), ultra-deep haziness (ReFelt) and garage-influenced early morning positivity (Dan Only remixing Clive From Accounts). Rock solid!
Review: Given the multi-coloured dreaminess of the synthesizer chords on EP opener 'When This is Over' - a quick blast of immersive Balearic goodness - it's not that surprising to find that Love Will Say No is a new project from one half of Italian disco duo Fare Soldi. You'll find more blends of colourful dream house sonics and weighty dub disco elsewhere across the EP - see the driving but deep 'Days Of Nothing' and the more percussive and energetic 'We Are Choices'- alongside a spot pf luscious ambient acid ('Post Modern Ballad About You and Me'), some synth-laden Afro-tech (the really rather good 'Now Say Goodbye To Your Friends') and a Mauscovic Dance Band style psychedelic punk-funk workout ('She Likes Blood').
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