Subb-an blesses Spectral Sound with another breathtaking tech-house monster.”Take You Back” wastes no time establishing itself. An uptempo, swinging bassline is soon met with claps, utterances from Beckford, metallic synth washes, snares and echo effects. And from those spare elements rise a dizzying track loaded with tension, longing and desperate hope. The flip side finds Spectral stalwart Ryan Elliott’s remix subverting the sweat and sex of the original by uncoiling “Take You Back” into a minimal techno territory. Beats rush by as Beckford’s once-soulful vocals are spliced and backtracked into mesmerizing, abstract tone poems. A radical but wholly satisfying counterpoint to the original.

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