Didier Sinclair, Baron (FR) - Lovely Flight

French house never really went away, it just kept changing its clothes. “Lovely Flight” is Didier Sinclair and Baron doing the filtered-disco thing with enough polish to sound current and enough warmth to sound like they actually mean it. There is a looped vocal sample stretched across the top that does most of the emotional lifting, landing somewhere between wistful and giddy, and underneath it a bassline that bounces with that unmistakable Gallic swing. It is the sound of driving into a sunset with the windows down, which stays a cliché right up until a track actually earns it, and this one earns it. The build is subtle, a filter slowly opening across two minutes until the whole thing blooms open, and the payoff is a warm rolling groove instead of a big obvious drop. I put it on expecting harmless background music and caught myself three tracks later having replayed it twice. That is the whole review.

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