Ever since 2014’s
Music for the Uninvited, Leon Vynehall has built a reputation for crafting rich, orchestral leftfield house. His music has always had a refined approach — the lavish strings, low-slung percussion, and delicate vocal cuts call to mind early 2000s Metro Area recordings. At its best, on songs like “Midnight on Rainbow Road”, Vynehall’s music seems to glide rather than dance, a blur of understated drums, echoing synths, and summery blue chords. It’s pure finesse and in the best possible sense.
Vynehall is coming off arguably his most refined work yet, 2018’s
Nothing Is Still, a moving, symphonic ode to his grandparents’ emigration to the United States. Now, three years later, the Los Angeles-based producer has switched gears and released something looser, heavier, and baggier.