- She's Drunk's music can be skittish to a fault. Tugging at various strands of syncopated club music popular in the last half decade, the Berlin-based Frenchman packs his tracks with fitful detail. All the stuttering and convulsing can obscure, rather than strengthen, the producer's ideas, but he's found a steadier hand on his latest record for Through My Speakers. The freshest ingredient is its drums: roomy, live-sounding kits, full of shrill snares and plenty of space. Half of the EP satisfies itself with exploring these grooves. On "Visions" the loping low-end and claps are counterposed with a pealing lead line, while on "Dancing Doubts," the EP's heaviest track, bird squawks and clipped shouts punctuate sly switch-up beat patterns.
The EP's other half goes pop. "Heart Burns" is waterlogged with R&B samples without quite landing a hook—that old problem of his. "Amadoda" is much better, thanks to Sho Madjozi, a breakout star in her native South Africa with last year's gqom killer "Dumi Hi Phone." She playfully raps between English and Tsonga, painting a scene in which she is, indeed, drunk, and asking "every single guy" at the party if he could stay over. (The track's title translates to "Men.") She's Drunk bolsters the groove with shreds of crispy breakbeat, but he keeps his fidgeting in check and lands a leftfield club anthem.
TracklistA1 Visions
A2 Amadoda feat. Sho Madjozi
B1 Dancing Doubts
B2 Heart Burns