Dream-pop with an emphasis on pop, “Champagne” manages to embrace a sort of eighties pop-soul groove with a more here-and-now indie dreamscape. And for those old enough to remember, there are no small amount of disco vibes running through it—a genre much maligned by many but one, in my mind, ripe for reappraisal.
But this is not a song that trades on the sounds of the past; I apologise if I have made it sound that way. No, “Champagne” is a song for today, and Shobsy is an artist who is more fixed on where the music is going than on spending too much time worrying about where it has been.
Blending liquid sonics, soulful licks, a subtle but unavoidable bass-driven groove, and a beat full of purpose and punctuation, this is a song that is the very definition of the word infectious. Even those who tend not to favour nu-disco, for want of a better term, are going to have a hard job keeping still to this one.
The clubland and dancefloor world desperately needs a new hero, someone who can cut through all that same old, same old dance music by numbers and digital dross, someone who can inject the right about of spark and sophistication back into that realm, I think that it might have just found said hero; it’s certainly found its soundtrack.
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