That metallic bass on the first drop does the thing future house lives for, it bends and squelches like it is trying to talk. MPH builds the whole record around it, and Nathan Nicholson rides on top with a vocal that keeps the machine human. Long Goodbye earns its low end.
The build is patient. Nicholson’s chorus stretches over a soft synth bed, and the first time the drop snapped in I went hunting for the sub, because that rubbery bass line walks right under the beat. By the second drop MPH has the vocal chop trading bars with the bass, and that back and forth is the best part of the record. It rolls.
Nicholson is a familiar voice if you have spent time with dance records. He is the one singing on Junge Junge and MOGUAI’s Call On Me, and he brings that same warm, slightly worn tone here, over production that fits the Future House Music catalog it landed on.
This plays like a sunset-set record more than a peak-time one, made for the hour the sky goes orange and the floor is still filling in. The vocal wants a little air around it. That restraint is the whole appeal.
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