- Piano house that pops, with help from a legendary dance music vocalist.
- UK charts and festival stages have been flooded with what a friend of mine described as "populist house"—bright, fizzy crossover dance music with dayglo colours and happy-go-lucky melodies. (This recent arc stretches all the way from Disclosure to Fred again..) After a remarkable heel turn towards mainstream pop with Dua Lipa in 2020, American-in-UK The Blessed Madonna returns with her first solo release in quite some time.
The evocatively titled "Serotonin Moonbeams" is a slice of bubbly pop house that highlights the best parts of Marea Stamper's DJ sets: incredible basslines, punchy drums that don't mess around and an ear for a good hook (especially when the piano comes in). It doesn't hurt that Uffie provides a lovably goofy hook, sounding brash on the verses yelping like Charli XCX on the bridge. It's a sleight of hand of mainstream-baiting dance music that smoothes the edges just enough, without losing that oomph that goes bump in the night—a savvy balancing act from an artist who went from the Kentucky rave scene to remixing Elton John.