Cat: SPC 143
While glassy-eyed, loved-up and overtly dreamy house with notable early '90s references has become something of a cliche of late, that's no criticism of Patrick Holland AKA Project Pablo, one of a small band of producers who helped kick-start the trend a few years back. As this outing on Spectral Sound shows, he's still miles ahead of his rivals. The EP sees him giddily charge between colourful, emotion-rich deep house retro-futurism (the sci-fi sounds and peak-time hustle of opener "The Solution"), swooning, dubby mid-tempo dreaminess ("Pressure No Impact"), jaunty and melodious loveliness ("Big Room Delusion") and the kind of clonky, metallic fare that recalls all manner of classic underground cuts from 1990 ("Pill").