It’s the first new studio album from the Grammy Award winning Deep Dish since the release of Junk Science in 1998 and despite initially attracting favour as deep-house producers, the Washington-based duo still manage to comfortably embrace a mass of genres and influences outside their native musical language.
From the rocky ‘Sacramento’ with openly gay Boston DJ, remixer, songwriter, producer, Richard Morel, to the marvellously stomping space cowboy club filler ‘Flashdance’ with unsuspecting Iranian-American songstress, Anousheh Khalili, ‘George Is On’ is a frothy, cosmic rainbow of deep house beats, age-of-aquarius folk, dazzling electronica and impeccable pop know how. Tickled by the interstellar cloud-formations of ‘Say Hello’? Then you should be equally pleased with the similar trajectory of the orbiting ‘Dreams’ – as reworked and resupplied by the legendary Stevie Nicks.
As likely to appeal to Radio 2 listeners as much as fervent Ibiza clubbers.