Adventure (Deluxe)
Huge, pop-savvy EDM abounds on this feel-good debut from feted French beatsmith Madeon, a.k.a. Hugo Pierre Leclercq. He broke out with viral YouTube hit “Pop Culture,” a spontaneous, seamless mash-up of almost 40 pop songs. But *Adventure*—which features a chorus of guest vocalists, including Kyan and Dan Smith—proves this talented Nantes-born producer is just as capable of crafting brilliant, conceit-free jams, from airy turbo dance bangers (“Zephyr”) to sample-laced chiptune funk (“OK”) and glowing vocoder pop (“Pay No Mind”).
While Adventure carries all the hallmarks of your usual skyscraping EDM release—stomping breakdowns, soaring choruses, maximalism-for-the-sake-of-it—it also straddles a fine balance between being a pop record and being a dance record.
While Adventure carries all the hallmarks of your usual skyscraping EDM release—stomping breakdowns, soaring choruses, maximalism-for-the-sake-of-it—it also straddles a fine balance between being a pop record and being a dance record.