Let’s find out if his latest mix is worth jamming out to Time after Time. New post time!

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Good morning to you, I am Jacob Braybrooke and it’s time for me to get writing up or your daily track on the blog, since it’s always my day-to-day pleasure to get typing up about a different piece of music! New month, new music – and that sentiment feels certainly true for the Reading-born electronic dance music producer, SG Lewis. Samuel George Lewis has just released his debut studio album, “Times”, through Virgin EMI and PMR Records, becoming his landmark full-length release after he began posting his own retrospective, uplifting club anthems online to streaming formats like Soundcloud. Inspired by the Sophisti-Pop of James Blake and Bon Iver, and the club-oriented Hip-Hop sounds of artists like Common and Timbaland, Lewis made a name for himself on viral platforms, while sharpening his live mixing skills by getting involved in the nightlife of his local scene in Liverpool. The superb Orlando Higginbottom (a.k.a. TEED) has a production credit on “Times”, but you will also find collaborations with Nile Rogers, Channel Tres, Robyn, Frances and more on the record too. SG Lewis has also established creative partnerships with Raye, LANY and Bruno Major over the course of his young pro career as well. The opening track, and fourth single, on the LP is “Time”, a laidback Disco-House fusion track that features a soulful vocal performance from Canadian R&B singer-songwriter RHYE, who featured on the blog with his new solo work on this blog just two weeks ago. Let’s take a listen below.

A record that pays loving tribute to Deep House, Chillwave, Synth-Funk and Dance-Pop music, SG Lewis announced “Times” as his first high profile release since his interconnected suite of “Dusk”, “Dark” and “Dawn” EP’s over the last two years, through his popular social media accounts back in late-October. With the announcement, he clarified that “This album is an ode to the present moment, and the finite chances we have to celebrate it. It’s an exploration of escapism and euphoria, and the memories attached to these experiences”, in conveying the moods and tones explored within the 40-minute recording. Kicking us off, “Time” is a taster that sets the scene for the rest of the track listing, with a vocal sample taken from “Don’t Look Any Further” by Denis Edwards. It paves the way for the light Garage beat to drop in, with a gentle and soothing Acid melody that reminds me of the late-90’s overly played hit “Music Sounds Better With You” by Stardust. RHYE’s vocals fit the mid-tempo template nicely, with lines like “Sun’s coming up, I wanna play” and “See me fadin, Come on and love this false horizon, babe” carrying the message to make the most of every day and not to take the nice little moments in life for granted. It’s nothing too deep, but it resonates clearly. The chorus is a little more involved, with a beautifally mid-volume arrangement of strings incorporating some classic Disco beats into the tune as the Violin strings swell and soar over the beaming synths of the mid-tempo bassline. An understated series of Conga drum beats is the cue point for the big finale of the track, where the Funk-inspired grooves dip below the vocals of “Somebody says, come over here” to replicate the sounds of vinyl crackles as the beat gently begins to fade away. With club doors currently closed around the world, we can only hope that SG Lewis will be able to take these sounds to festival stages late in the summer to make the most of this music. However, I’d rather he release this music than keep delaying it, like the new Bond movie because it allows a feeling of normalcy to breathe through the harmonies. RHYE’s vocal performance is strong, while the production of the track feels inspired and tinkered with. This sounds a little more commercial than the type of electronic music that I would typically choose to listen to, but I still think that it would sound great on mainstream daytime radio. It’s easy to like, there’s clear inspiration in the sound and it feels well-produced overall. It was – basically put – well worth spending 4 minutes and 20 seconds of my Time with.

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That’s all for today! I’ll be back tomorrow, just like every day, with an in-depth review of some more brand new music – this time coming from an Israeli-born singer, songwriter and self-producer whose track was once used in an advertising campaign for Apple’s music streaming service, and in her earlier years, she used to studied composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. If you really liked what you just read, why not follow the blog to get notified when every new daily post is up and why not like the Facebook page here?: https://www.facebook.com/OneTrackAtATime/