Love Hallucination
Progressive development as an artist isn’t as easy as it looks, but Jessy Lanza’s *Love Hallucination* has all the hallmarks of a leap forward. The Canadian producer and musician has always drawn from a catalog of dance music spiked with a sly pop sensibility. Part of this comes from the ferment Lanza draws from as a member of UK label Hyperdub, a singular incubator of unique electronic artists since the 1990s. But influences and collaborators can only do so much. Lanza has a voracious appetite for sounds, a musical magpie building something unique from the shimmering parts of techno, gqom, house, and drum ’n’ bass. You could hear that foundation being built on her 2021 *DJ-Kicks* installment, where considerate experimenting is the rule. But where her mix was built of ready-made parts fused together, *Love Hallucination* is all Lanza—though that almost wasn’t the case, as these songs were originally written for other artists before she decided to record them herself. By taking these tracks in-house, Lanza has channeled her anxieties, desires, and tastes into a musical vector, giving *Love Hallucination* heft and velocity. “Don’t Cry on My Pillow” mixes familiar jabs of romantic resentment with the thrum of industrial drums. The twin tracks “Drive” and “I Hate Myself” are breathy anti-mantras cradled by louche downtempo, the sound of a mind that can’t let go as the world swirls around it. On “Marathon,” Lanza nearly snarls under a glittery Y2K-era R&B beat to underline her pursuit of unapologetic physical pleasure.
Jessy Lanza leans into low-lit club pop (and picks up a saxophone) on an album whose breezy mood feels inspired by her new home of Los Angeles.
Jessy Lanza leans into low-lit club pop (and picks up a saxophone) on an album whose breezy mood feels inspired by her new home of Los Angeles.
Once known for her otherworldly electro-R&B, the producer and DJ confidently pushes her shimmering sound into the pop sphere
Love Hallucination ultimately feels like an artist riding on intuition. There's the 90s house mentioning throughout early birds “Don’t Leave Me Now” and “Midnight Ontario” and the retro walking bass on “Limbo”. This is Jessy Lanza’s proficiency for…
Once known for her otherworldly electro-R&B, the producer and DJ confidently pushes her shimmering sound into the pop sphere
Love Hallucination ultimately feels like an artist riding on intuition. There's the 90s house mentioning throughout early birds “Don’t Leave Me Now” and “Midnight Ontario” and the retro walking bass on “Limbo”. This is Jessy Lanza’s proficiency for…
Jessy Lanza doubles down on her fourth album – Love Hallucination is a plush, sultry and synthy collection of techno-pop sounds.
Jessy Lanza doubles down on her fourth album – Love Hallucination is a plush, sultry and synthy collection of techno-pop sounds.
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Ontario’s Jessy Lanza has near-enough perfected the art of aqueous electro-pop over the course of the last decade, creating a sound that’s as instantly
Ontario’s Jessy Lanza has near-enough perfected the art of aqueous electro-pop over the course of the last decade, creating a sound that’s as instantly
Love Hallucination by Jessy Lanza album review: a sultry, instinct-driven watershed moment from the LA/Toronto producer
Love Hallucination by Jessy Lanza album review: a sultry, instinct-driven watershed moment from the LA/Toronto producer
The effervescent nature of Jessy Lanza’s ‘Love Hallucination’ starts to serve as a hindrance rather than a strength. Read our review.
The effervescent nature of Jessy Lanza’s ‘Love Hallucination’ starts to serve as a hindrance rather than a strength. Read our review.
The uniquely puckish Canadian electronic artist spans pop and beguiling abstraction on her fourth album, as she writes about boldly confronting her needs
The uniquely puckish Canadian electronic artist spans pop and beguiling abstraction on her fourth album, as she writes about boldly confronting her needs