KAAZE has found his voice, and her name is CERES. Psychological is the latest in what is quickly becoming a proper run of tracks between these two, big-room dance built around CERES’s enormous, reach-the-back-row topline. Where a lot of festival dance leans on a vocal as decoration, here she is the load-bearing wall, and the drop practically works for her instead of the other way around. KAAZE knows how to engineer a lift so it feels inevitable, and the hook has that same arms-open quality that makes a crowd sing before they have consciously learned the words. If I am honest it plays a little safe next to their last one, a touch more by-the-numbers in how the energy climbs. But safe KAAZE is still a better night than most producers at their best, and when CERES opens up in the final section the quibble evaporates. Festival fuel with an actual human at the centre of it.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.