New Amunoa: “Alright Now”

ByPatrick St. Michel

Producer Amunoa usually makes swift, sample-skipping tracks that feel like confetti cannons going off. But on “Alright Now,” they go a little bit more inward and try out a more relaxed pace. It opens in a daze, faded guitar notes swirling around before giving way for a beat content to shuffle along rather than burst out. It offers plenty of space for Amunoa to play around with a sweet little vocal sample, bending it all over the place, and to dapple more guitar and synth notes over it. If most Amunoa songs are letting something out, this is the sound of breathing something in. Listen above.

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