Review: Following a trio of largely overlooked but very good EPs, Third Attempt (real name Torje Fagertun Spilde) drops an album built around the best of those quietly scintillating sets. Bookended by picturesque, ambient style interludes, Momentary Bliss works as a showcase for the Tromso-based producer's distinctive trademark sound - a loose, languid and sun-warm blend of jazz-funk instrumentation, infectious breakbeats, warming basslines, scratched-in hip-hop samples and Aim style downtempo instrumentation. It's the kind of toasty and entertaining set best suited for wavy front room dancing and blunted sessions on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon. It feels like an echo of another time, but that's no bad thing.
Review: Album #3 here from Oslo's Torje Fagertun Spilde, better (and aptly!) known as Third Attempt, following on the heels of 2020's 'World Is Too Loud' and 2021's 'Quarantine Remixes' and coming once more on Vidar Hanssen's Beatservice label. After Ninja Tune-esque opener 'Freak Out', 'The Novel Sound' takes a wander through far funkier pastures on 'Age Of Steam', 'My Girl' and 'Nu Funk' before then changing tack once more, dropping the tempo from 'Sunbeam Symphony' on out and taking us into more laidback/Balearic-ish territory. It all adds up to 46 minutes of very pleasant chilled listening that are probably best served whole.
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