Review: Paris-based Friendsome Records hit the headlines earlier this year when they signalled their arrival via a hot-to-trot EP from Chicago house legend Roy Davis Jr. On this follow-up, they've decided to promote the work of one of their own: French starlet Belaria. She begins in confident fashion with 'Boost' - a shimmering, retro-futurist, techno-tempo new wave delight full of vintage synth sounds and weighty drums - before doffing a cap to 1980s production legend Martin Rushent with the League Unlimited Orchestra-esque 'Rest in B'. She further explores her 1980s machine music influences on the Italo-goes-new wave shuffle of 'Burning Inside', before upping the tempo once more on the throbbing grooves and grandiose synth sounds of 'Esteem'. Throw in two tidy extended mixes and you have an excellent debut EP.
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