Some records just refuse to age, and Most Precious Love is one of them. If you’ve spent any time near a proper house floor you know Barbara Tucker’s voice and you know this song, a 2004 anthem that still gets hands in the air two decades on, and Copyright have given it a fresh coat without touching what makes it sacred. Tucker’s vocal is a force of nature, all gospel power and lived-in soul, the kind of singing that reminds you house music grew out of the church and the disco in equal measure. Copyright keep the arrangement classic and warm, a rolling piano-and-organ groove that just glides, letting the voice do the lifting it was always going to do. There’s a breakdown where it all strips back to the piano and Tucker alone, and the room goes quiet in the best way. This is what people mean by real house music, the soulful, vocal-led kind that trusts feeling over a big drop. In a week of engineered dancefloor product it felt like a glass of cold water. Put it on loud and let it remind you where all this came from.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.