Lo Shea - Northern Lights EP

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  • Northern Lights is the second EP on Hope Works, Liam O'Shea's label that represents a party of the same name. He describes the event's venue as a space of "industrial heritage," with a crowd that likes to "party hard without it being too moody." This comes through in O'Shea's often killer productions. Big, metallic sounds don't explore the profound as much as the physically potent. Of the two directions O'Shea usually takes his music—rolling house or warehouse rattlers—this EP strikes the latter hard as ever. On "Northern Lights" and "Mark IX," boomy kick drums hit like a club-thirsty version of Taiko, creating a rapid trajectory where rave horns are happy to latch on. "Strakt," in contrast, is beatless, its delayed, anthemic guitar blaring out like a soloist at a stadium concert. The record closes with its strongest track, "Hoodoo," a rolling banger with an acidic twinge. Though it's nothing new for O'Shea, none of Northern Lights can do wrong on the dance floor.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Northern Lights A2 Strakt B1 Mark Ix B2 Hoodoo
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