Out of Nowhere (2023 Guava album) – Queen City Sounds and Art

“No Grand Gesture,” the concluding track to Guava’s 2023 dream pop album Out of Nowhere, is like the peaceful exit out of an album that was like a journey through emotional exploration of relationships and aspirations. Rather than the more pop mixed with deep house format of the songwriting of the rest of the album, this song utilizes the softly incandescent tonality of the record to craft an ambient cloak of soothing drones that blend and roil together and fade into abstract environmental sounds like a long drive through some light fog at the end of night of new experiences and adventure to the tranquility of a home outside the active energy of a city center. It’s an appropriately meditative end to an uncommonly thoughtful album and a track that though instrumental and ultra chill lingers with you. Listen to “No Grand Gesture” on Spotify and follow Guava at the links below.

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“Universal Angel” and its soft textures and hazy melodies is reminiscent of a period in music when early chillwave artists existed at the same time as some of the more creative deep house producers but never really collaborated. But Guava with this track taps into the meditative and transporting sounds of that time and fuses the styles perfectly here. The song featuring the introspective and warm vocals of Maddie Ashman considers the nature of genuine love and how it is only fully possible when both parties are free to connect without mitigating burdens. Whatever one’s own specific perspective on that subject might be the song’s lushly enveloping production and hypnotically measured rhythms is truly entrancing. Listen to “Universal Angel” on Spotify and follow Berlin-based, British producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Guava aka Bradley Hutchings at the links below. The latest Guava album Out of Nowhere released on October 27, 2023 via Hutchings’ own label Guava Noise.