Listen: Clarian - "Mirror Of The Sun" feat. Jess Cardinal

​This reads like a Cold War-era spy movie and perhaps it is; perhaps it’s the inner monologue of a bleary-eyed raver gazing shell-shocked across a glow-stick lit dance floor. Regardless, unless you’re knocking one back in Havana or Monaco, Montreal producer Clarian’s “Mirror of the Sun” is a heady slice of escapism.

His first release on mad DJ extraordinaire Seth Troxler’s adventurous Soft Touch Records label, Clarian melds such a variety on “Mirror of the Sun” - French pop, psychedelia, Tropicalia, hints of electronica - that he transforms all these things into, impressively, nothing it all – nothing you’ve heard before anyway.

Between the bounding bassline, slinky guitar lines and copious woodblock, you can virtually feel the warm, sultry breath of guest vocalist Jess Cardinal on your earlobe as she whispers, “first touch, a heavenly rush / first touch, bigger than both of us”. It’s quite a greeting, whether she’s introducing you to Molly or possibly your next one night stand. Alluring, dangerous, titillating.

Is There Light At The End EP is released on 29 September (limited 10” vinyl) via Soft Touch Records.

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