Prince Josh - "The Glory (Reprise)"

This kind of hauntalogical, throbbing future garage is almost unavoidable for pleasure seekers like me who look to music to, at times, just lay it’s heavy forearm across every button on the serotonin-producing keyboard that is nestled somewhere in my pre-frontal cortex. Prince Josh’s “The Glory” does that for me in spades. Prince Josh (born Josh McIntyre) is a producer songwriter and DJ based in Toronto Canada. He is best known as half of the electronic pop duo Prince Innocence as well as the Mexican Summer / Captured Tracks post-punk outfit Little Girls. He released his debut album The Joy (2020) to resounding critical acclaim followed by remixes and singles for Nervous Records, Kitsune, and Italians Do It Better. This pedigree is put to good use with “The Glory” a song that, “The song was recorded in spring 2021 with the help of producer Joel Ford and marked a stylistic shift from his hazy lo-fi take on dance music to a crisp three dimensional sound. Having hit a wall trying to find material to sample he started writing full songs with the intention of ripping them apart to create something new. The idea evolved into a process of recording two separate works for each track. The song features chopped and screwed vocals from a piano ballad recorded with singer Lauren Armstrong.” Lovely work here.