Introspective melancholy, daydreaming falsetto mellowness. The melancholic leftfield outsider Balearic soulful wistfulness is irresistible. Ten tracks in all, including the advance single A1 "Straight Line" (sample 1), a daydream-like Balearic cosmic singer-songwriter cheap-machine soul flavored cut whose precarious falsetto vocals and hedonistic r ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)omantic boogie perversity are utterly captivating, plus the other advance single, the folky jazz-funk disco & boogie number A3 "Fall For You" (sample 3). B2 "I Feel Alive (feat. Letherette)" is another nicely comfortable one. The musicality, which hints at a subtle connection with the vintage modern-soul manner of labels like BIG CROWN, is also highly intriguing. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

The long-awaited new 7-inch single from James Alexander Bright, one half of Bright & Findlay, known for "Everything Is Slow," the classic slow-mo Balearic outsider soul album on Athens Of The North that earned high praise from Gilles Peterson!!! Side A is "Straight Line" (sample 1), a romantic, daydreaming Balearic cosmic boogie with a precarious f ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)alsetto and a blue-eyed soulful, folky singer-songwriter voice that will draw you right in — and then the B-side is seriously dangerous and utterly brilliant!! "Oh My" (sample 2) rides a racing LinnDrum groove with electric piano, synthesizers and falsetto choruses, an outsider cosmic leftfield machine funk that sounds like Theo Parrish producing Arthur Russell — deeply cool stuff. Great!!! The album due out at the end of July is something to look forward to as well. Recommended. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)