Uppermost – Perseverance
Uppwind Records

1. Perseverance (Featuring Harry Pane)
2. The Brightest Light
3. Slide (Featuring Yudimah)
4. Focus
5. Step By Step (Featuring Sôra)
6. Make A Change
7. Atoms (Featuring. Birsen)
8. Believe
9. Where Your Heart Goes (Featuring SYML)
10. Better Days Ahead
11. Healing (Featuring Mesita)
12. Moment Of Truth
13. Late Hours (Antony Left)
14. Uprising

Uppermost’s long awaited LP ’Perseverance’ is a body of work to be proud of with tunes that are big and bold whilst also having some very tender moments.

’Perseverance’ sees the French producer collaborated with several different artists from Harry Pane who features on the album opening title track, Sôra who features on previously released single ‘Step by Step’ and more recent release Atoms which features the vocal talents of Birsen to name but a few.

This album has many highs but also a couple of points that mark low and took away from my listening pleasure. I’m not one to shy away from a lengthy album be it in track number or song length but I also know when things have gone on for a little too much which only tends to lead to the skip button being hit and that’s one problem I found with ’Perseverance’, with a 14 song track list, this album has, for me at least, too many tracks which is a shame because by chopping the album down even 2 tracks could really help.

I personally would keep all tracks with vocals bar ‘Slide (featuring Yudimah)’ which is by far my least favourite vocalised track, it’s in the in-between instrumentals that I would do some cutting. Removing them all isn’t an option as this would take the album down to just 7 tracks, 6 if you remove Slide, instead I would remove 3 plus Slide taking the album to 10 tracks. But thats not to say that the instrumentals are bad or have no place in this record at all because there are some really good gems in there like ‘Focus’ which has a sound similar to that of UK electro punks Does It Offend You, Yeah? which I would highly recommend for those unaware of their work and the rather 90’s dance scene sounding ‘Believe’ and ‘Uprising’.

In a time when electronic music has become someone of the norm and a little over saturated at times across many genres, Uppermost shows just how good an electronic album can be and uses his influences to create big bold sounds and emotional atmospheres that keep you interested and dancing, even though I would chop a few tracks off, but thats the thing with this album, for its small flaws it has many more shining properties, that make it one of those “must have” records.

All in all this album has bit of everything for everyone to enjoy and what I dislike about this record could be the thing you love most about it, which is what music is all about, after all if we all liked the same thing the music world would be a very boring place, all we need now if for the myriad of “top producers” employed by major record labels out there to release that.

RATING: 7/10