"Dancin' In The Streets is profoundly immersive, but far from insular. The album's guestlist, which includes Sinclair, Switzerland-based singer Cansu Kandemir, and a mysterious figure who goes by "Tha Payne," reads like the membership of a secret society. Boogizm himself is conversant with the warped fringes of contemporary popular music: the Dijon- Mk.gee bitcrush-R&B braintrust, for one, or Dean Blunt, Joanne Robertson, and Elias Rønnenfelt's extended universe of gothic neo-folk."
""I feel things changing," Boogizm croons on "I H T," "Since you've been gone...living in hard times." As his voice-husky yet tender, usually stacked and pitched up or down-flits in and out of intelligibility, Dancin' In The Streets seems to chart a dark night of the soul. On "(DON'T) SAY MY NAME," Boogizm plays a lonely demon begging not to be summoned. "REAL HARDCORE PLEASURE" brushes up closest to the abyss, trapping us behind the eyes of a man trawling an escort website."
Dancin' In The Streets combines immersive, outward-reaching sonics with a cast of collaborators including Sinclair, Cansu Kandemir, and a mysterious "Tha Payne." The music draws on warped contemporary pop, bitcrush R&B, gothic neo-folk, and BJ Burton-style digital abrasion. Tracks move between campfire-singalong gloom, Jai Paul-like demos, and paper-shredded electronic experiments. Vocal performances are husky, often stacked and pitch-shifted, conveying loneliness, desire, and a dark night of the soul. Narratives and prose interludes portray transactional intimacy and emotional dislocation. Moments of fleeting salvation and dance-adjacent rhythms coexist with primitive drum-machine textures.
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