Lovers Dance Academy by Close Counters

The Feature Album this week on 2SER is Lovers Dance Academy by Close Counters!

This is the third studio album from the duo and gets straight A’s with it’s perfect balance of funk-laden boogie and soulful house music.

While the instrumental tracks on the record, such as opener “Waterfall” are excellent takes on propulsive synth-disco, it’s the stellar vocal features (including from Allysha Joy, Jace XL and Tiana Khasi) that really graduate this to a sleeper classic and one of the most rounded dance records to come out of this country in years.

Close Counters are Finn Rees of jazz/soul collective 30/70 and producer and engineer Allan McConnell. While their previous work (Soulacoasta I & II) offered a more sample-based club leaning , in comparison Lovers Dance Academy graduates into looser and warmer live grooves and a more collaborativee approach, all without losing any of their previous dancefloor sensibility. Sign up!

Lovers Dance Academy is Out Now on Vinyl and Digital

Close Counters will be launching the album on Saturday March 8 at The Red Rattler Theatre – tickets here