From the striking (and ridiculously catchy) scene remembrance "Flat Talk" to the rolling midtempo keyboard work that is "Azalea Chuva" to the octagon-drum '80s pastiche that is "Time is Certainly Passing," the duo covers a lot of ground in this record's half-hour runtime, somehow finding a melody line that hooks us in and stays in our brains at least once a song but often even more than that. Their sophomore effort, however, is an escalation of their aesthetics in every way possible. and his fellow artist and DJ friend Photay - put out their first album under the moniker in 2016, and it felt like a creation designed for the clubs: Sparse but focused beats, repeated vocal loops, and a change in percussion style with every song all added up to a distinct sound that borrowed from worldbeat as much as it did from current club trends.
The duo - comprised of Astro Nautico Sam O.B. It's a singer-songwriter album brimming with personality, and by the time you're done with it, you'll too be noting that "today was a good day."Įnsemble Entendu has always been about dance music, but it has also always been about the drums. Whether it be on the apocalyptically romantic "End of the World" or the extremely meta "Don't Play This On the Radio", she always turns worn clichés into fresh new concepts, waiting for eternity in "The Waiting Room" for her love-at-first-sight to maybe, hopefully come back. Filled with easy, strummable melodies and a warm glow to the production, Spraggan, as always, lands it with the lyrics.
Yet that was a long time ago, and while she has never really made any impressions in the U.S., if any record was going to get her notices stateside, it'd be "Today Was a Good Day," her fifth full-length. One-time "The X Factor" contestant Lucy Spraggan truly never needed TV exposure to get famous - but it certainly helped in her native U.K., leaving the show in 2012 and suddenly getting chart placements and critical notices for her conversational folk-pop style.
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