Nocturnal Sunshine: Nocturnal Sunshine | Album Review

Maya Jane Coles apparently doesn’t care for idle hours.

This full-length album is the latest in a long line of the producer’s releases, remixes, collaborations and, of course, high-ranking club and festival appearances.

Nocturnal Sunshine is a couple of rooms away from Coles’ usual tech-house mainstream leanings, where slo-mo, downtempo, broody bass gets to reign supreme and cast its spell.

Hotel and Close are full of melancholic splendour, each track benefiting from Coles's perfectly finessed textures and tones.

There are times when she pushes the tempo and mood closer to the day-job: Take Me There comes armed with a mesmerising grooves, while the collaboration with Chelou on Believe is a canny delight.

But mostly Nocturnal Sunshine is where Coles tries out her more experimental fare.

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