- Finnish veteran Jori Hulkkonen's Something Left To Learn EP comes just a month after a new album of sparky, subterranean electro-pop. Gleaming arps signpost "Something Left To Learn" as a quality Italo homage, with a liquid bassline and John Foxx-like vocal that, like a lot of Hulkkonen's best work, strikes a fine balance between bubblegum and dystopian moods. Daniel Wang and J.E.E.P.'s remix heads from dance floor to lounge. The added pitter-patter of bongos and twanging guitar notes are pleasant, but it's altogether less compelling than the original.
B-side "Distant Cities" is an unremarkable future-pop plod, its robotic vocal bringing to mind International Deejay Gigolos compilation filler circa 2001. Hulkkonen perhaps should have dropped the song—it would've made for a better record.
TracklistA1 Something Left To Learn
B1 Something Left To Learn (Daniel Wang & J.E.E.P. Remix)
B2 Distant Cities