- The Vancouver producer Lndrcroy returns to remind us of the beauty of taking a breath.
- If you want a time capsule of what the most exciting house music in the early 2010s sounded like, Leonard Campbell AKA Lndrcroy's "Sunrise Market" should do the trick—its unhurried drums and stoned melody still sound luxuriously lethargic. At the risk of going too far, what made the tracks emanating from the Vancouver house scene so addictive was how they seemed to prioritize slowing down, the perfect antidote to the millennial hustle culture and fetishization of "busyness" that was cresting around then.
The timing of "Bluerosa," Campbell's first release since 2016, couldn't be better. The world seems to again be headed towards a moment of cultural, economic and geopolitical acceleration after the initial Covid-19 slowdown. Campbell helps take us out of that "new normal" by lighting a joint and inviting us to pause for ten whole minutes. The track uses his old tricks, which are now a bit more polished: the break less dusty, the heart swelling synths more dense and intricate, the production decidedly less lo-fi. It is, in other words, the perfect companion piece to his 2014 breakthrough, the sunset to "Sunrise Market."