Dan Lissvik’s 2007 album with Swedish duo Studio arrived amid the Balearic beat “revival”, a slower-paced style of house music, where the guitars sound as if they’re coated in syrup and analogue pastel synths meet disco licks. Today, the genre’s blissed-out legacy can be heard in the more two-dimensional poolside house and nu-disco made popular by the likes of YouTube channel Majestic Casual, but Lissvik’s solo album conjures Balearica’s original eclecticism – from soft rock and funk to dub and krautrock, and even ambient. The eight tracks encompass Fleetwood Mac-ish flourishes, wafty psychedelic percussion and the sorts of elastic basslines that Nordic cosmic-disco producer Todd Terje would snap into a set. Some of these songs could even take Lissvik from occasional pop remixer (fans of the 1975 may care for his 2013 take on Settle Down) to the DJ that the man-cleavage vest brigade pump their fists for this summer. Here’s hoping.
