LISTEN: Flight Tonight – ‘Lines’

This track brings me back to the few months I spent wandering in the thick of a New York winter. Cosmopolis lives up to the impressionable catacomb it professes to be; bagels, another construction zone erecting tall stuff, crumply dollar bills, good looking dudes in suits.

After hours, it’s a real lonely place though. Loneliness becomes more apparent stumbling out of Death By Audio alone at 4.30am, discovering the Manhattan bound E train is closed for repairs, being chased by Donald Sutherland’s hobo ghost and having nothin’ but a soggy subway churro in your bag to point you in the right direction.

Flight Tonight producer Adrian ‘Edo ‘Rafter has created a real gem here. The vocalist who sounds like Lykki Li fronting Portishead on ‘Lines’ is Leure, the solo project of Ash Hendriks (Wolves At The Door).

Formulaic beat samples and the purity of song blur on this track. It’d be easy to write this off as another shot at sexy minimalism (Seekae have already siphoned the threshold of all good stuff said about that on this site). There’s that familiar thump, the ambient synth, the breathy wane of someone who’s probably rolling around in a bedsheet somewhere. Minimal production on ‘Lines’ echoes the way The xx’s careful, clean cut sounds allow Romy’s dim vocals pulling power. Although ‘Lines’ generates a curious feeling of absence and space, it still comes across as incredibly personal which leaves the biggest impression here.

If you like what you hear, make sure you check out Flight Tonight’s self titled EP via bandcamp.

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