Slip's 'Melisma' is a mini album/EP from Leeds-based label Perception Records. Blending electronic lounge beats with ambient and nu-jazz influences, Melisma is a warm, pleasant-sounding collection.
With the laid-back but solid grooves of loungetronica and wonderfully warm synths, the tracks are a pleasant halfway house between pure ambient and more uptempo stuff. Vocal track Melisma is the lead track, and in the same vein as the others.
There's some nice beats on this EP, and the whole thing makes for good listening - if perhaps more suited to the background. The slightly glitchy/electro infills add a little dirty spice to the laid-back vocals and ambient pads, but apart from that there's little to bring the music out from the background.
Slickly produced, warm sounding, and pleasant on the ears, but lacking in hook or character.
What next?More by Slip? More reviews? More lounge, or electro?