Parov Stelar: Moonlight Love Affair (LP)

Love and music. Over the past few years, Parov Stelar has meticulously worked his way through the sounds of individual decades, sampling and quoting, resurrecting past times and bringing them into the present. Electronic dance music and organic elements - hardly any other artist harmonizes the two as well as the Austrian DJ, producer and electroswing pioneer. Like a love affair, he combines jazz, house, electro and pop on his new ninth album "Moonlight Love Affair", the follow-up to "Voodoo Sonic" from 2020. Marcus Füreder, Parov Stelar's real name, has recorded twelve songs for it. Long-time fans will recognize tracks like "Candy Girl" or "Dirty Mariposa" with their retro-chic aesthetic. Singer Mani Hoffman (known from Supermen Lovers) is involved in the songs "Better Believe" and "Black Bird". Other guests on "Moonlight Love Affair" are Vallemarie, The Russian Gentlemen Club, Avec and Anduze. The song "Toxic Lover" indulges in the use of a sample from the now ubiquitous Shangri-Las song "Remember (Walking In The Sand)". All the tracks together paint a raw and unvarnished picture, vulnerable but also powerful and beautiful. The comparison with a love affair also hits the mark here. As with his previous releases, the cover artwork for "Moonlight Love Affair" was created by Parov Stelar himself, who also works as a visual artist and designer. The artwork bears the name "I Can See Music, I Can Hear Art".