Hope For Sale

Throughout the 2010s, Montreal-bred, LA-based studio wiz Yoni Ayal produced tracks for superstars like J. Lo and Usher, but with Chiiild, he’s making music purely for himself. And on their first full-length album, he and partner Pierre-Luc Rioux stretch the psychedelic-R&B sound of 2020’s Synthetic Soul EP to fill a wide canvas. Hope for Sale is a hallucinatory blur of disco, funk and pop that owes as much to Pink Floyd as D’Angelo’s Black Messiah, its expansive vision coloured with charming details like mouth-trumpet solos. R&b