Mesto has been refining this bright, bouncy strain of house for years and Listen To Me might be the most fully realised version yet. The man has a gift for melodies that feel like sunlight, and this one rides a plucky lead that’s almost annoyingly catchy before the vocal even arrives. There’s a future-bounce snap to the drop, that signature rubber-band rhythm he helped popularise alongside Brooks and Mike Williams back in the day, and it still sounds fresh because he keeps tightening the screws on it. What gets me is how effortless the whole thing sounds, like the track always existed and he just transcribed it. The vocal hook is the kind of thing you’ll be humming against your will by the second chorus. It’s relentlessly positive in a way that could read as saccharine from a lesser producer, but Mesto sells it because he clearly means it. Not every track needs to brood. Some just want to make a sunny afternoon feel like the soundtrack to something, and this nails that assignment cleanly.
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Mesto - Listen To Me
1 minute on this. That's longer than the bridge of any Coldplay song deserves.
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