Konrad Ritter Neph Trip City

out now: Fresh off their April 2022released debut single on Unreel, German duo Konrad Ritter NEPH are back at it with High Hopes, a threetrack hike across solar house territories beautifully complemented by a choice remix from Kompakt stalwart Robag Wruhme. True to the pair s ever vivid and colourful approach, a lush palette of summery flavours and organic suavity exudes from this fresherthanfresh second effort. The blissedout, discohued opener Trip City treats us to a smorgasbord of layered pad swashes, framing our minds in a warm cocoon of sound that spins in and out of focus to the jacking rhythm of early Chicago house drums. Folding out sequences of melodic sublimation and honeylike textural unctuosity thru and thru, a different shade of feelgoodism innervates You Are Doing Well, where Ritter and NEPH blend in elements of polyrhythmic Caribbean music with heavily processed vocals and a leftofcentre sense o