Braille - Everyone's Crazy EP

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  • With all but one of them clocking in somewhere around the four-minute mark, the tracks on Praveen Sharma's debut for Friends Of Friends feel more like pop songs than anything built for the dance floor. Such is the gushing mood of "Everyone's Crazy," a smouldering brew of half-cooked vocal samples and analogue synths, that it's best consumed alone. "Four Hours" follows a similar pattern but with nods to floaty early '90s Balearic. The relaxed atmosphere is maintained on "I Know," where Sharma buries raw tribal percussion but allows a killer jazz guitar loop to take centre stage. At this point Sharma introduces some hammering UK rave revivalism in "Small Downs," complete with digital seagull noises and Burial-style stretched vocals. It's the one moment where he goes off-script, although even here there's a sense of languor. At less than 100 BPM, and with ultra-emotional chords brought to the fore, he's quickly back in plaintive mode on "Too Forward." The package's most unconventional offering comes in its final few breaths. Building in intensity through a storm of discordant strings, "I Was Gonna Make It," with its Madlib-style sped up/drawn out vocal juxtapositions, closes out a warm-hearted, if a little too one-paced EP.
  • Tracklist
      01. Everyone's Crazy 02. Four Hours 03. I Know 04. Small Downs 05. Too Forward 06. I Was Gonna Make It
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