Everything Is Alright

'Leading on from the stunning Iceboy Violet mixtape with his 2 B Real department of Local Action, Finn’s hope springs eternal across nine tracks that simmer, then bring the dance to boiling point, with his classic UKG tekkerz. Without wanting to blow smoke up his ass, few producers in this paradigm have stamped their character on classic UKG quite like Finn, who continues to infuse the template with his own sense of soul (albeit vicariously sampled), rather than so many colouring-book examples from the revival wave.

Joyful, with a side order of melancholy, the vibe is empathetic of the times, toggling his feels from the gentle pill belly lift of his flute loops, organ vamps and mantric vox on the title tune, thru the speed garage welly of ‘Big Raver’ to the woodcut drums and pastoral bliss of ‘Forever Blue’. There’s an ace slice of sub-contoured deep garage house in ‘A.Y.O.Y.O.’ and an electroid Detroit variant in ‘I Don’t Know’, plus deeper burn in the slinky skip of ‘Ere U Are’, and a soul-grabbing elision of Jersey club and northern soul horns in the woozy ace ‘Alright’, saving a very special treat for the chamber -garage elegance of ‘Never Leave’ with its nagging piano refrain and and end-of-night processional flex.'