Talabot, John Fin Permanent Vacation vinyl record Special Offer

Electronic House Deep N Low Slung 9 Track LP Inc Free CD of LP Sealed
Appearing a leisurely few years after his initial break-out successes — the 2009 single “Sunshine,” his remix of Delorean’s “Sea Sun” — and the cresting wave of interest in neo-Balearic dance music they conveniently rode, the first full-length from Spanish producer John Talabot bears the mixed blessing of being a little bit late for its moment; trading the freshness and excitement it might have had for a warm but still welcome familiarity. The sound remains mostly the same — brightly blurry, detuned synth disco and slow-motion deep house — although there are definitely some changes afoot. For one thing, “sun,” a key component of Talabot’s original aesthetic, in a metaphoric but still very tangible (and audible) sense, is conspicuously absent from the track list (not to mention the black, tortuous cover art), and the album’s contents reflect that, coming across as almost uniformly moody — wistful, brooding, even mournful — with mino