La Fleur – Vasen [PIAS]
Swedish producer/DJ/artist La Fleur releases her long-awaited debut album ‘Väsen’, out now on [PIAS] Électronique. Praise for previous LP singles inc. Mixmag, DJ Mag, BBC, Noctis, SiriusXM, Kiss FM, Laurent Garnier, ANNA, The Blessed Madonna, Kerri Chandler, Axel Boman, Sim0ne, Eelke Kleijn, Reprezent Radio…
LP ‘Väsen’: La Fleur crafts hook-bedecked synth/piano melodies, her own heartfelt vocals and crystal clear multilayered percussion to touch the listener’s emotions. The nine-track LP represents a new body of work following moving back to Sweden and family, and using her Masters in Pharmaceutical Science in the pandemic, working as head of operations for pharmaceutical services at the emergency hospitals in Stockholm.
The five LP singles: ‘Chian’’s assertive percussion, funky soul-filled vocal and trancey arps; ‘Slowdive’’s fast beat, synthpop vibes, swoony euphoric synth; ‘Stay With Me’ is entrancingly polyphonic, madly catchy, w. fast breaksy beat, whispery vocal and joyful piano melody; ‘Plastic Miami’ has a romping beat, sparkling piano arps, pizzicato guitar, synth fanfares, a subtle hint of Kraftwerk; ‘All I Ever Wanted’ is poignantly ironic, stealthily catchy, with a deceptively simple melody and sweet vocal. Title track ‘Väsen’ has a staccato, jazzy vibe, with percussive hops and skips around a strong, steady beat, and a spacey distorted synth chord riff. Eminently danceable, signature La Fleur with so much for the mind to follow while the body gets on with moving.
There are three album-exclusive instrumentals, opening cut ‘Sannanita’, a moodily balanced composition of sustained, slow melodic synth chords and a choppy, deep buzzing synth riff; the upbeat ‘Your Move’ with its hissy hihats and nu-disco feel; and dangerously catchy ‘Free My Mind’, a jumpfest of fast, clapping, hissing, rattling percussion layers, with a lively reverb synth riff before longer chords bring extra emotional depth.
‘I’ve always drawn inspiration not only from music, but from changing elements in my life. It’s only now I feel these tracks are ready for the world to hear’ – La Fleur
La Fleur’s illustrious career includes a decade of her Power Plant label, a Mixmag Breakthrough Artist nod, a Watergate compilation, an Essential Mix, Essential New Tune collab with Sasha ‘Förbindelse’, and gigs inc. fabric, Creamfields, Awakenings, Watergate Berlin, Printworks London, Sonar festival, Warung Brazil, Amnesia Ibiza…
