F.C. Music

FC Music - Soft Hands Long Gone Another doozy on Dublin’s wherethetimegoes label, chasing Princ€ss’ micro-dosed dreampop with a mysterio debut round of aqueous groovers tipped if yr into Church Andrews & Matt Davies, NZO, Sensate Focus, Foodman.

‘Soft Hands Long Gone’ introduces a striking new talent to the pool with FC Music’s meld of spacious, tumescent sound design and lilting rhythmelodic suss. On six distinctive cuts they adapt cues from prevailing global south grooves with a tingling sort of textural flesh and crafty effervescence that also marked out Princ€ss’ sound from the crowd, but here with a slinkier impetus and swing primed to froth a good ‘floor at the right time. In effect they call to mind the dextrous sleights and glancing chords of Church Andrews & Matt Davies delicacies as much as Plaid’s fluffy ‘90s electronica and even the R&B plies of that killer NZO 12” on DDS, but again with a twist of their own soul and tenderness that lands beautiful gentle on mind and feet.