“Late To The Party” is a debut EP by Juni, released on all streaming platforms via Baciami Disques on July 12th. It’s their second release this year, acting as a follow-up of “Bring U Back,” an exceptional single that announced this release a few months earlier. Consisting of four carefully assembled and flawlessly produced compositions, “Late To The Party” showcases the creative abilities of this trio, as they embark on a luxurious sonic journey where all the vocal, sonic, and rhythmic acrobatics shine on the limelight. Soundwise, Juni explores many branches of electronic music. Perhaps house music comes to mind first, but you’ll notice how other different or similar styles found their way into this sonic equation. Music genres like EDM, dance, and chill lurk around in the mix, propelling these magnificent songs to new heights. Of course, there are styles like contemporary pop, indie, synth pop, and synthwave lurking around, emphasizing, highlighting, and decorating particular segments and instrumentations.
Juni considered everything while writing, composing, arranging, recording, and producing this material. You’ll notice how every track arrives with a perfect structure, garnered with marvelous segments, brilliant ideas, and impressive orchestrations. As soon as you press play, the fresh, unique, distinctive, innovative sound pervades your listening apparatus, keeps your attention from scratch to finish, and even refuses to let go after this EP ends. Juni thought about that memorable, hypnotic, irresistible factor, so these tracks unquestionably possess a strong radio hit potential. With the initial notes and beats, you’ll realize that keys and synths play a significant role in this sonic equation. The trio left no stone unturned while writing and compositing layers of intricate orchestrations for this material and that’s vividly hearable from scratch to finish. This interplay evokes a touch of nostalgia while continuously levitating towards modern sound. Therefore, you’ll hear how the eighties and nineties music inspired these folks to produce these tracks, but they subtly showcase admiration for these eras. There are hints evoking those times, but their music is almost dominantly modern in a beautiful and brilliant way.
The interplay between synths shapes an otherwordly backdrop for all the vocals to shine upon. You’ll hear how catchy, memorable, mesmerizing melodic sequences, accentuations, ambiances, and other sonic maneuvers resonate on one side, while the other shines with brilliant themes, melodies, and harmonies. Of course, Juni also included some guitar layers to spice things up a little bit but these instrumentations undoubtedly depend on the current moment, mood, and ambiance. All these orchestrations support vocals immensely. Speaking about vocals, the impressive lead vocal performance shines in the limelight, commanding attention and guiding the listening apparatus through every track. The impressive vocal performance seamlessly balances low, mid, and high notes while simultaneously emphasizing all the moments and instrumentations. Juni wisely implemented all the low ends by continuously switching between synth and analog maneuvers. These equally intricate and vividly hearable basslines roar beneath synths and guitars, offering more than necessary heftiness, deepness, and clearness. The rhythmic patterns depend on the current mood and ambiance, so they range from calm to rapid sequences decorated with many beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics.
It’s nearly mindblowing how Juni continuously levitates from calm, soothing, relaxing, ethereal segments to more fast-paced, dynamic, intricate moments where the trio showcases what they’re capable of. Their ideas and musicianship go beyond mere trends, as they showcase an entirely new face of the electronic music scene with their cleverly, wisely, expertly written and composed songs. Their blend of so many different but complementary electronic music subgenres works flawlessly with their ideas and intentions, so it’s safe to say “Late To The Party” is one of the best electronic music releases you’ll hear this year. Each track is more than a highlight of this EP, so you should listen to this material with sole attention from beginning to end. Head to your favorite streaming platform and enjoy!
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