Super review by Cal Gibson, of The Secret Soul Society. Emil Jonathan‘s Copenhagen-based group of musicians tread lightly on their third longplayer, channeling Miles and Teo, Chick and Zawinul: all warm textures and sweetened, straight-lined melodies, moods conjured up and memories re-flickered, moments of solace for those of you scrambling for footholds amongst the madness. It’s not a million miles away from London’s equally brilliant Lophae and it’s a lush brew of symphonic salvation that flows to the heart and back, to the heart and back. Opener The Sun is a phuture slow-burn banger: an ode to the huge lifegiver that works so well by keeping it lean and mean, Nicolai Land‘s bass gently pulsing, Jonathan’s clean guitar tones popping blithely above: a studied lesson in restraint, less is more-ish grooves that breathe through Rasmus Kjaersgaard‘s flute lines. A quiet solar storm. The title cut let’s fly with melodic abandon: straight out of the blocks and dropping into Mai Lan Doky…
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