Lord of the Isles – Clearness of Love EP

Direct downloads for TMF users. JOIN NOW!

turbobit.net
uploadable.ch
uploaded.net

What first hits you about Clearness Of Love—and what will stay with you after it’s finished—is the sheer amount of melody packed into it. The whole thing brims with harmony and layered passages of keys, pads, bass and gummy 303 sequences. McDonald’s longstanding love affair with acid certainly plays a role here, but it’s all backlit with a halo of light at the edges. Even when “DYFM” begins with a slippery squelch, it’s soon enough softened by the glow of tender chords and the mantric sample “Don’t you forget me.” “Bodyswerve” and “Clearness Of Love” operate on a shared wavelength, tying together spacey delay, concise drum patterns, thick low-end and innumerable synth patches into a sound that straddles early house and IDM. Though not a dance floor go-to, “All I Need” stands out for its massive bass notes and effective—and somehow not cheesey—use of pan flutes in an understated, 110 BPM framework. It’s a dreamy and fitting end for Clearness Of Love.