mixtape maestro (2.0)

Perhaps sensing that one album was all anyone could take of disco-fuzz party confections with very little to say, Calvin Harris seems to be ready to switch some major gears on his upcoming second album by the sounds of it’s lead single, “I’m Not Alone”.

Somewhat sadly, the new track doesn’t see the Scottish DJ/ producer further indulging in the slow-creeping robo-soul of the I Created Disco highlight “Love Souvenir” (fingers are crossed in the hopes of getting a sequel of sorts to that somewhere down the line), but it does find Harris moving up a decade to celebrate a sound that was wholly “acceptable in the 90′s”: larger-than-life trance-pop anthems fit for a stadium-sized audience.

It takes a couple seconds (to be more precisely, forty-five) for “Alone” to get moving, but once it’s extended build-up of midtempo, guitar-drenched introspection gets out of the way and that base line thump and gigantic, 16-note synth hook enter the picture, the track quickly solidifies it’s position as the rest of the year’s go-to source for the ultimate aural-grasping of utter joy.

Expect this one to be pumping from seemingly everywhere real soon…and expect to not even care because it’s that damn good.

Single drops April 6th.