Some tracks are just honest about what they’re for, and Summer Jam wears its entire purpose in the title. TLM build an uplifting, sun-soaked trance record around Merely’s airy vocal, and the whole thing is engineered to make a festival field feel ten degrees warmer than the forecast. The melody is big and unguarded, the kind that would have soundtracked a main-stage sunset twenty years ago and still does the exact same job today without updating much. There’s a long tradition of trance being a little cheesy and entirely unbothered about it, and this slots happily into that lineage with no apology. It builds the way you want it to, holding the tension a beat longer than expected before finally letting the release land. This is not the track for a moody Tuesday indoors; it’s the one for the precise moment the sun finally breaks through. Pure serotonin, delivered without a scrap of irony, and some days that is exactly the prescription you needed filled.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.