The vocal is the hook, and Sam Silver and Yona are smart about how little weight they hang on it. It comes in chopped, loops for a bar or two, then gets tucked back under the kick before it can wear out its welcome. ‘All I Think About’ lives in that push and pull, the topline reaching for the front and the low end quietly keeping it in line.
The bassline is the part I keep rewinding. It sits a hair behind the beat, a short elastic figure that hands the groove a swing most tech house leaves on the table. A filter sweep pries the second half wide open, and that is exactly where I would drop it, a low-ceilinged club around 1am with the vocal cutting through the haze. None of it is oversized. The swing carries the record, and every part sits low enough to loop for a long stretch without going stale.
It is out via IN / ROTATION, an imprint that keeps backing this groove-first, low-fuss strain of house. Sam Silver does not have much of a bythewavs archive yet, so treat this as the start of one.
That is the appeal, honestly. The topline never resolves into a proper chorus; it keeps circling back in chopped fragments until the loop itself turns into the hook. On a track this lean, that repetition is the whole design.
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