The fading love of George FitzGerald’s debut is as much for the club scene that nurtured him as for the girlfriend he was splitting up with at the time. Disillusioned with the remorseless euphoria of computer-made EDM, he turned to analogue instruments and drew on the influence of more emotionally nuanced ravers such as Leftfield and Underworld to reflect his mood. The result is an intimate and beautifully textured record that is free of club bangers. But though these tracks are largely elegiac in tone, they still seek out the consolations of the dancefloor, delivering pulsing beats and warm surges of melody.
