- The New York house duo return with a stunning, narrative cut of jazzy bass and Afro-Latin percussion.
- In the classic New York film Downtown 81, a fictionalised version of Jean-Michel Basquiat spends a lot of time walking around the Lower East Side with a painting under his arm, absorbing the neighbourhood's vibrant panorama of nightlife characters and sounds. Brooklyn house duo musclecars build a similarly immersive scene on this first single off their forthcoming album. Crescendoing sirens dance atop contorting '80s-style synth riffs, while an arsenal of Afro-Latin drum sounds accelerate by the second amid raw electro bass.
This colourful tapestry of cultures and gritty noises is quintessentially New York and sparks a desire to behave with wild abandon—bracing a snowstorm, for instance, to stew in sweat and ecstasy in a basement club. Until the halfway mark, the track is very much rooted in the spirit of Detroit techno and '80s acid, before spiralling into cosmic jazz funk. The cascading drums slow and the mood switches from dramatic to a peaceful calm–a reminder that time is on your side.