The Present lover

The Present Lover by Luomo is neither crass genre exercise nor blind tribute but something altogether more imaginative and strange – a rock-solid piece assembled from cracked components, a universal call drafted from so many levels of disrupted communication. It’s simultaneously accessible and deeply mysterious, a set of slinky exteriors wrapped around a spiky and desperate center as nervously detached as the album cover model’s emptily lustful gaze. What Delay’s second house outing loses in modesty it makes up for with a new brand of depth and complexity built from upturned expectation and a ready embrace of house’s many contradictory impulses. Whether a brilliant revision of what has come before or a template for things to come, The Present Lover is, in the immediate and sensual now, as taut and sexy as a black dress and as tantalizing as a half-heard whisper on the dancefloor – immediate, intriguing, essential.

Release date: May24th, 2003, BMG/ Force Tracks
Credits: Artwork By Marc Hohmann, Akiko Tsuji

01. Visitor (4:12)
02. Talk In A Danger (7:45)
03. The Present Lover (9:19)
04. Body Speaking (8:11)
05. So You (6:06)
06. Could Be Like This (8:12)
07. Cold Lately (4:44)
08. Tessio (Album Version) (9:25)
09. What Good (8:16)
10. Shelter (8:53)

Selected reviews… coming soon!

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