Released on: 25th May 2018
Yves Schelpe and company return for a fateful addendum to the most recent Psy’Aviah album Lightflare. Titled Looking For The Sun it boasts three new tracks and lots and lots of remixes. Being both accessible to new listeners and established fans. Again featuring a plethora of artists lending their hand to not only reimagine songs from Lightflare but augment Yves vision on new tracks No More Heroes, Anchor Down and title track Looking For The Sun. As each artist offers their own [musical] voice to create an entity greater than the sum of its parts.
Originally Lightflare contained the gamut of colour from the spectrum of light. Filtered through the prism of Yves Schelpes’ mind who had translated it into audible frequencies. Thus proving that the speed of light is not constant but varies according to when it is processed. Lightflare was and still is an interesting dialogue between emotion and electronic music.
With only three new tracks Looking For The Sun has got a lot to live up to in comparison to Lightflare and at first glance appears over-saturated by remixes of the title track. This is a mirage however as each remix offers entirely new worlds of techno to explore. And it is an amazing feat that exemplifies just how far a simple motif can be manipulated. To pen the age old paradigm ‘it is not what you have got but how you use it’ can be attributed to this complimentary EP.
Looking For The Sun is full on techo. Techno itself covers a lot of ground and there are club tracks close to emotional trip-hop songs intertwined with futurepop and trance. United through their differences the songs are resplendently thought-provoking and when not swirling in the ephemeral ether are working tirelessly to feature the beat of their own drum. And while Looking For The Sun is just a supplement to parent album Lightflare it is an intriguing extension towards the considerations on the album.
8/10
