Touch Sensitive has dropped his new album My Paradise. Listening to this 47 minute, 13 song bonanza is a golden experience that harks back to the sound of the best days of the late 70s, early 80s Italo Disco.
So, where do we start with this review? If you are familiar with Touch Sensitive, you’ll know that you’re booking a ticket to the land of bass and synth driven funk but in this album, it feels like you are taking a journey into the mind and landscape of childhood sounds and inspiration of the man himself. I say that, because I have a stack of vinyl that I’ve collected based on the sounds and influences I listened to as a kid that sound similar from this era and to this new offering (look up Shakatak, Gibson Brothers, Change, Chic and you’ll know where I’m coming from). Hence, after giving the new album a whirl I was head over heels instantly.
We are currently living in a world of mundane mainstream music and AI driven unoriginality that doesn’t make music a joy these days on the radio. It does here at YMR but to the normal masses it doesn’t at all. However, if you listen to the track ‘In Paradise (It’s All Computer)’ this embodies the feeling that carries you throughout the album. On first listen, all I can say is it is like going into the opticians blind and coming out with 20/20 vision. It’s like the scene in Pleasantville where the movie changes from black and white to colour. It is like going from a world of VHS into an 8K environment. This album just hits you. I’m a big believer that listening to music can charge you (vibrationally) as much as a good sleep can and putting this album on in your earbuds and giving it the full 43 minute experience will feel like plugging your EV and getting it up to full charge.
Album highlights…I am biased and I’d say all of them. I can’t choose. The vocals from Connie Mitchell (Sneaky Sound System) work so well on the many tracks on play here. ‘A Team Spirit’ is another stand out. But if you were scoring them out of 10, they’d all be up there and pretty close to perfection.
It’s a different album to Visions but that’s good. It is an evolution but in a reverse decades kind of way that works so well. This album needs a Live Band tour as it will be such a pleasure to see the bass King in his element on this.
I was an early adopter when Spotify launched for Touch Sensitive and at the time I was kindly sent a pair of Touch Sensitive pants in a Pizza Box (Pizza Guy style). I have this album on order for Vinyl. When that arrives, I’ll be putting those safely preserved pants back on and enjoying some Italo Disco fueled good times…maybe with a Limoncello. In the meantime, I will be quickly putting clicks on this album and getting Touch Sensitive into my end of year Spotify recap playlist for sure.
