- The UK artist's first solo track in almost three years is a rowdy one.
- Floating Points was one of electronic music's undisputed MVPs last year, making waves across scenes and generations with Promises, his career-defining collaboration with Pharoah Sanders. But before that masterstroke of ambient jazz, Floating Points' career was defined by funky, often jazzy house beats, a format he returns to on the rowdy "Vocoder," which is somewhere between "Nuits Sonores" and the arena-sized Crush.
Built on a skippy beat, "Vocoder" has all the rhythmic hiccups and vamping chords we know from old Floating Points, arranged with the skill of someone who knows how to work a 20,000-strong crowd. Every time the track approaches one of its breakneck breakdowns, a choppy, razor-sharp vocal sample launches forth like an expertly thrown shuriken. "Vocoder" is a simple yet effective anthem from a producer who has racked up plenty over the years.