Monday, November 7, 2016

Tinashe - 'Lucid Dreaming' from Nightride (2016)

Nightride is oneiric, dreamy and gauzy, in layers of partially translucent sound, a way to pass time outside of time. It seems appropriate that its release is close to the end of Daylight Savings Time, so that the extra hour can be spent listening to this. Although there seems to me to be an aura of chill-out room or the chill-out channel on cable music selections over the whole of Nightride, 'Lucid Dreaming' is not only the first song, but the one that reminds me the most of late 80's/early 90's Ambient Techno. Explicitly ambient r&b has been around since what, at least the late 60's, but Nightride is certainly a misty mountain peak of the form. Lots of throw pillows, at least, that is what I would think?

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