For the cover of Phaseone’s new album If I Tell U, a glass cube structure hangs over a hazy, blank space, perfectly embodying both the concision and ambient space at this music’s core. “Bianca,” the album’s first single (streaming), is a trippy chillwave number built around a minimalist melody so liquid that it reduces the lustiness of soul music to just a few key-strokes. The rest of the album is just as tight, and by that I mean, precise, like Don Draper (minus the serial virility). Yet behind this shiny wall of neatly arranged synth-scapes lies the suggestion of a crack forming in society’s wall. (You don’t need no education.) – Brian Chidester
We added this song to our curated playlist of Emerging Electronic NYC artists.