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This Norwegian producer returns from his period forays into the leftfield for an album that is as fizzy and enticing as ever
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm is nothing if not consistent. The Norwegian electronic producer is known for his romantic, cosmic take on disco: along with his countrymen Todd Terje and Prins Thomas, he helped popularise a sleek, euphoric form that felt novel in the mid-2000s, and which is now the de-facto soundtrack of every hip beachside bar the world over. Once in a while, Lindstrøm will make a left-field, exploratory record before snapping back to the space disco that made him famous.
Everyone Else Is a Stranger, his first album since the 2020 Prins Thomas collab III, represents the snap-back point: it’s a suite of four gloriously starry-eyed dance epics, filled with cheeky synth whirrs and undulating bass rhythms. It has all the enthusiastic fizz and enticing hue of a £30 bottle of pét nat; although it’s slightly less exciting than the seductive, moonlit III, it arrives at the perfect point of summer, when the heat is gruelling and the only thing that might help you cool down is 40 minutes of expansive synth jams.
Continue reading...by Shaad D'Souza via Electronic music | The Guardian
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