Higher Moment / Amnesia

Limited to 500, Black Vinyl with Download Code. Higher Moment / Amnesia is the follow up to Paradise / In Love An Arc, Amor’s debut 12”, which surfaced in May 2017. Culled from the same sessions at Chem 19 and The Green Door in Glasgow, these two tracks elevate the ecstatic, transcendent aesthetic Richard Youngs, Luke Fowler, Michael Francis Duch and Paul Thomson introduced with their previous release. Amor is collectivism in the servitude to trance, a master class in ensemble playing, an avant-disco one-mind. Higher Moment on Side A, forsakes the 4/4 of the group’s previous 2 tracks for a loping ecstasy, a driving rhythm that forges forward around the bassline. Youngs’ vocal here is the focal point, teaming with an almost utopian positivity. For an artist who’s built a career obfuscating, sidestepping the straightforward, to hear a sentiment so pure is spine-tingling. In fact to imagine a Youngs brimming over with a higher love is almost the biggest curveball this artist has ever thrown at the listener. With the line “following fearless through clear boredom,” we imagine a path to a new world shorn of the material.
On the flip, Amnesia re-introduces the pounding 4/4 kick with a bittersweet cadence provided by Youngs’
piano. Here, Fowler’s subtle effects dress the movement, highlighting the tension between the forceful,
House percussion and Youngs’ minor key melody. Amnesia’s power comes from the edit, a skillful carving up of the groove to create several beautiful, odd moments in time. Indeed, with its to-the-floor pulse, Amnesia searches deeper into inner space, providing a melancholy twist to Higher Moment’s optimism. Amor take you higher. Forever an Ocean.