If you’re having nostalgia or simply have a general preference for the London school of 80’s music merging with modern mellow pop, today is your lucky day. Toronto-based after-hours DIY mad man, The Techno Hall of Fame’s nu-disco ballad, Sway In The Dark is worthy of its heavily-hyphenated description. You see, there isn’t really any clear-cut way of describing it. 

 

Opening in honor of Rusted Root’s anthemic Send Me On My Way with low, meditative grunts, Sway In The Dark quickly transforms into something else without losing its epochal aesthetic. Sliding chords and muffled vocalism lead a charge of groove, funk, and swaying positivity in ways best described by the track’s keymark line:

 

Give a fuck about the party boys, they won’t even look me in the eye.     

But I Still get loose when I want to, and I still get high.

 

A charming nonchalant-ness drives Sway In The Dark’s energy and because of it, it’s probably best described as timely. A clean retro-futurism that merges its brutal ties to 80's reminiscence in production with a modern mellow-pop vocal take finds itself balanced by current standards that are prioritizing and striving for a seamless and unforced cross-inspiration to breed new textures. 

 

There has always been a time and a place for the feel-good electro-ballad, but the world has been short-changed of such deliveries in recent years. This track by this artist fits the bill we didn't know we needed.