Fat Roland, mate, what are you doing?! Why are you including a corner shop in your top twenty albums of 2024? Are you being sponsored by discounted multipacks of nearly out-of-date Monster Munch? No, reader, you're thinking of Londis. This is about Huerco S.'s deep house alter-ego Loidis.
The bass drum does much of the heavy lifting on One Day. Ever present, ever pulsing. As important to the snappy, brisk house sounds is its synth production. This is shiny stuff, with very liquid chord sounding super oiled.
The more you listen, the more it becomes about the details. On the uniquely-named Sugar Snot, there's a shimmy to the rhythm that adds deep soul. Wait And See's hurried patter has an undergrowth of fuzz that might have you hallucinating. And Love's Lineaments slowly evolves from a misty hiss to a slightly foggier hiss.
Huerco S. is no stranger to low-level meditations, as attested to by his 2016 ambient album Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have). But it's nice to hear him bringing that vibe into a new work without once losing the need for an upfront boss drum.
And yes, I too am now craving a pack of pickled onion Monster Munch. Or flaming hot. Yes, I think flaming hot rather than pickled onion. What's the other one? Horseradish or washing up liquid or something? Sorry. What were we talking about?
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