Leev Ur Mynd

Chicago’s Larry Heard, here in his Mr Fingers guise, has been making the deep house music he pioneered for forty years, and it’s quite the trick that he still manages to come up with fresh and distinctive takes on the genre. But he does, and each of these dozen detailed, restrained, gently simmering tracks — all of them 4/4 deep house jams apart from a couple of forays into slower tempos and more fractured beats — contains its own unique — at least within the world of deep house — mood and style, and its own idiosyncratic sound palette, quite distinct from each other. Deep house often exists in a constant present moment, looping around on the precipice of a resolution that never comes, and Heard continues to excel at making music that teeters on the very crest of a sonic wave without ever breaking, its development and progression achieved via micro-changes, gentle moves and the subtlest of shifts.