Top 100 Chart Placements
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Bonnie Spacey sashays back into the Exploited Club catalogue with another dose of decadence. Relax, Relax! has a lot to offer; a multifaceted pack of rich, evocative dance floor music. The title track kicks things off. A feisty Italo line runs up the spine of the track giving it a confident presence from the get-go. Stabs flesh out the groove as tension builds toward a swerve into a tumbling House piano line. The drums stay sharp and punchy while hot blobs of acid throw another sonic curveball into a well measured and eminently playable hybrid. Prophesis burns with a more ominous aura as an agile, glowering bass line links arms with muscular stabs. Pensive synth tones build towards a twisted breakdown that adds to a brooding sense of pressure and lands the track neatly in the bag of DJs looking to weave a narrative through their sets. Solar Echoes adds a final shade to the EP as it casts a sunny, amorous glow across the floor. An upright House groove unfolds with more stout, propulsive drums - this time decorated with charging stabs and gorgeous major-key chord shifts. A spacious breakdown brings things right back to scratch before it snowballs into out and out rapture and ties a technicolour bow on a brilliantly varied release.