The cover art here is a sunlit forest out of a childhood storybook, all warm greens with a boy and his tiger standing in the light. The music underneath runs cooler than that picture promises. Projects in Blue built Technicolour to hold its color back, letting it seep in a little at a time instead of flooding the frame.
The track moves like a slow tide. A soft pad and one melodic figure circle each other for a while before the low end settles in underneath and gives it a floor to stand on. There is a turn past the halfway mark where the melody lifts and everything opens up, and that is the stretch worth the wait. It never sprints for a peak. It earns the one it reaches.
It arrived through MrSuicideSheep, a natural home for this kind of quiet, melodic electronic music, and it settles right in. Projects in Blue has barely any footprint yet, so the Projects in Blue archive more or less begins with this track. Save it for the drive home when the sky goes that deep late-blue and you want a record that meets the mood instead of fighting it.
I have no idea where Projects in Blue goes next, but a first impression this composed is a good sign. This one already understands that the quiet stretch before the peak is the part you carry out the door.
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