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April 26, 2019 - Extra Free
Lxury—longtime friend of Guy Lawrence of Disclosure—has released a long EP (or a short album) on Extra Free, a record label that’s now-with-me notoriously difficult to Google. After releasing his first single with Method Records, Lxury has continuously received great support from BBC’s outlet Radio 1. Despite a lot of his DJ-centric fanbase, not much in his arrangements is sympathetic to his disk-spinning audience. Admittedly the artist thinks little about his target audience, saying, “My music is going to progress – I don’t see myself making house music forever. I don’t really pay much attention to what people write about me and what tracks they prefer... [You’ve got to] get on with it with a tunnel vision rather than looking at what’s going on around you.”
The new EP Movement Design Suite finds our artist emboldened and hedging away from more classical house music compositions, but not by too far. Movement Design Suite rolls out with 80’s dream-synth murmurs in ‘System’ which quickly obliterate into a dancy and energetic blitz. The hook is decidedly electro pop with a two-bar phrase of brief synth climb and longer descent down the scale. One begins to wonder if this isn’t going to be more house after all. The majority of the song’s movement, from this point onward, comes from light variations in layering and EQ distortions and adjustments.
The mysteriously-named ‘Ylsm’ follows up, with very similar instrumentation and the addition of a more somber vocal thread, adding a little soul to what’s otherwise a glitchy dreamscape. The songs are well-suited to radio listening, passive reception, and scenery driven emotionality. Much the same can be said of ‘Spiritshaker’ and ‘Core,’ the former being slightly more adventurous in terms of its texture, but not in its explorations otherwise. In an attempt to isolate himself in his own idiosyncrasy, I fear the strong young lad has fallen into a trap of scrubbing himself clean, and the tunnel vision he has espoused has become an echo chamber. ⛰️