SWEATSON KLANK Vinyl & CDs

Review: What does it mean to be timeless in an age of shallow immediacy? In a world where instant virality is hailed as the supreme goal, the most radical act of subversion might be creating something built to bang in a soundsystem eternity. The latest from Sweatson Klank (FKA Take) aims to achieve that rare posterity, inviting an all-night party of boogie funk, 80s modern soul, Japanese city pop, Balearic disco, AOR, and 90s house. A 13-track alchemical yield of "beatstrumental" productions and highbrow electronica fruits, this album largely centres on Klank's exploration of what truly makes a timeless album timeless; that glimmer, or hook, that causes a song or album to repeat, again and again, in the listener's mind. Not one for a shallow listener, A Free Mind is a sprawling stylistical-miracle.