“FLIRT LIGHTS” sounds like a strip of neon bar signage came to life and started flirting with you, which is roughly the energy 2frers are going for. It’s a bouncy, cocky bit of bass house, the kind of track engineered for that exact 1am club moment when everyone’s suddenly a little braver than they were an hour earlier. The lead synth has this pitchy, talky quality that almost forms words without ever committing to one, and it worms into your skull fast. Around the 1:30 mark the whole thing strips back to just a sub and a clap and lets the groove breathe for a bar before piling back in. It’s daft fun with actual craft under the hood, which is a rarer combination than the streaming-farm sound usually suggests. I don’t know a single thing about these two and the track told me everything I needed to anyway. Not deep, not trying to be, just extremely good at the one job it set itself. The audio equivalent of a wink across a dark room.
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