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Secret Life
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Secret Life
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Long before
became a successful pop songwriter and one of the most popular figures in dance music, he worked with
and
's
on their 2014 collaborations
, receiving credit as co-producer. The two both referred to each other as mentors, and they finally released a proper collaboration,
, in 2023. The album melds
's soft, weepy vocals and sampled vocal snippets with
's meditative atmospheres and submerged piano melodies. The title track interpolates a
song, with detached guitar strums barely poking out behind
's yearning but hopeful vocals. The entire album exists in a similar state of intimacy and barely there-ness, sounding half asleep but occasionally yawning an optimistic message like "don't you even think of giving up." Occasionally the vocals get caught up in the textural wizardry, sounding fragmented and distant on tracks like "Safety" and "Cmon." "Trying" almost approximates a sort of lonesome space country wail, and final track "Come on Home" is based on a song from
's final album. While far removed from the ecstatic rush of
's usual work,
has its moments of beauty. ~ Paul Simpson