MICHAEL IMPERIAL - NICOLE [124bpm]

I’m kind of smitten by this guy.

The album artwork leads you to expect pop music, and then he gives us this instead. A minimally percussive, heavily bass-laden track with unabashedly lush vocals.

I personally think it’s pretty clever to go ahead and name the track after the artist the vocals have been sampled from. It’s almost humble; like he understands that the music world is rife with R&B vocal samples, but believes in and loves the production enough to dedicate it to its origin.

Each track on the EP doesn’t bother to hide in shadows of splicing or pitch-control, either. Instead they are embraced.

But honestly, where is this guy’s press? His debut 6 track EP doesn’t have a single song worth skipping, and actually deserves to be heard. Go pay a measly $5 for it on his BandCamp page, and follow on his SoundCloud. As always:

.::do:work.show:love::.