Shy One - Waterfalls

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  • When Shy One came out of a four-year retirement last year, it didn't sound like much had changed. Back with her regular label, Scratcha DVA's DVA Music, following a spell with Diskotopia, the London producer's sound remains familiar. Waterfalls is bright, melodic and playful. "Rid Of You" is particularly reminiscent of past glories, its digisoul chords and deft, swung side sticks suggesting UK garage channeled through the post-dubstep of five years ago. There are also echoes of another London style, broken beat, in its jazzy bounce, helped by a vocal from Aisha Zoe. Elsewhere, Shy One fidgets in multiple directions, exploring a spread of tempos and feels. If you squint at the fractured drums and sour arps of "Waterfalls," you'll hear dubstep. "Refreshed" lurches up to 150 BPM for a take on footwork's chipmunk sample scraps and sharp percussion, but it can't quite settle, flitting between boisterous 4/4 and awkward stasis. Finally, Single White Female helps flip the script on the closer, "∞." It's a pensive ambient moment interrupted by strangely forceful chord stabs, as if Shy One can't help but keep things moving along.
  • Tracklist
      01. Waterfalls 02. Rid Of You feat. Aisha Zoe 03. Refreshed 04. ∞ feat. Single White Female
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