- Club bangers with a gooey pop centre.
- Samantha Poulter made a name for herself after she moved to Melbourne from Sydney, finding peers in talented producers like DJ Plead and Cop Envy before relocating to Berlin to chase her musical dreams. It would be a typical story if it didn't end with Covid-19. But Poulter's luck was better than most: she scored a significant lockdown hit with "Perfume," a clever flip of Avant's "Separated" with a full vocal sample that hearkens back to UK anthems like "Getting Me Down." That giddiness in "Perfume" is central to Poulter's music. She builds tracks on low end that's fierce but not aggressive and vocal hooks you can hum along to. You've Got The Whole Night To Go makes good on "Perfume""s promise with an EP that would be massive in a more normal world.
Lead track "I Won't Forget" hits all the house music pleasure points from the moment it starts. The dual vocal hook and its interplay with the breakbeat is the best part, at least until that fat bassline comes in after the breakdown. The track shows a mastery of both sound design and tension-and-release often associated with veteran producers like Paul Woolford. This is big-room dance music with soul.
The rest of the EP offers bright takes on other club sounds. "Her" is sub-heavy tech house. "Medium" is brittle electro with a Miami streak. "Like My Way," another highlight, has a vocal that plays backwards then forwards like a wonky tape deck. Each has a pop sensibility embedded in its rhythmic DNA, a quality that means she's often mentioned alongside crossover stars like Caribou (who recently tapped her for a remix). With tracks like these, she could be on her way to that kind of status herself.
Tracklist01. Like My Way
02. I Won't Forget
03. Medium
04. Her