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There are many ways to deconstruct club music. On the Bristol label Unauthorized Informationreleases can take dangerous measures to scare (Train Skirt) and funny (Mun Sing) very much. Recently, the same brand finds Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL filling the club to the chest with water: you can hear things sinking, melting, or floating silently.

The trio started out as friends in south-east London, where being heard to bleed each other wasn’t a creative choice, but sharing a house. To create their sound, they combined their ideas as producers, before adding their favorites: Floco Violins, Aria SL’s. good song vocals and production of Stolen Velor’s clubbier. Their approach to club music has meant an unusual spread of support spaces: somehow, they complement both Jabu’s dubby shoegaze, and Yya’s dangerous music.

Following up on last year’s EP Holdfast, Underlight finds plenty of movement without breaking the carefully crafted atmosphere. The lead single Caught Myself dwells among the scenes of the sunken and the sound, clear, like a diver walking under water and resurfacing. Moment’s tour-hop is rocking and bopping. The changing times of busy clubs – piano, gqom – appear on I Want and Loch.

The power of light is the balance between these worlds of immersion. The cutscene, at the center of the LP, is a featureless, full-body scene, immediately followed by a cover: an adaptation of Lilium, a large Puccini-like theme from the Japanese manga series Elfen Lied. From this top, the sound goes down, and the immersion begins again. Hugh Morris

This week’s best songs

Radie Peat – I still love her
The Lankum member’s first single is an eternal devotion song – but the narrator’s lover “knocks me out”. These sorrows and horrors are carried like icebergs through a warm, beautiful system. BBT

Biita Houdei – The Ground Here
Laurel Canyon’s challenges aren’t limited to monkeys: Houdei supports Joni’s “explorations” but reinforces the sunlight and her powers of attraction. LS

Kelela and PinkPantress – The Bridge
Kelela effortlessly brings all the good things she does; What’s surprising here is the cheeky PinkPanteress’s perfect harmony on the subject of a very broken, watery ballad that sounds like it’s drowned out. LS

RenzNiro – Save me
Over a lean, snarling beat and snarling bass that lurks in the shadows, the Manchester-based rapper delivers a self-proclaimed lyric – a single from international mixtape No Weapon Shall Prosper. BBT

Like Ribbon – Symbol
Some of the Irish band’s heaviest work yet: dry, absorbing – effective to the point of suffering – it reverberates around Dara Kiely’s vocals before they start to rock and go crazy, rock. LS

toEdgar – Follow me
From the new album by Oakland-and-Guadalajara musicians Pavor, this is a Spanish-language cover of the disco classic Amanda Lear’s Italo Follow Me, shining like a black mirror in a goth club. BBT

Slow Pulp – Not For Nothing
There’s something of the heartbroken Bonnie Raitt of the 90s in this piano-driven ballad from the Chicago group, as Emily Massey sings about the difference between someone and their ex who has already moved on. BBT

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