There’s a certain tenderness at the heart of Thaylo’s sound that feels both intimate and expansive, as though it was designed to soundtrack a sunrise over an endless horizon. On his new EP ‘Drown In Your Eyes’, the Grenoble-based producer takes the piano – an instrument too often flattened in electronic contexts – and lets it breathe, wrapping it in textures that swell with both melancholy and hope.
The opener and title track eases into being like a curtain slowly drawn back: glowing chords unfurl under delicate vocals, evoking the quiet euphoria of a moment you don’t want to end. That balance of light and shadow runs throughout the record. “Let Me Be” drifts inward, built on a bassline that moves like a heartbeat, while “Save Your Tears” pulses outward, its rhythms gently hypnotic, blurring the line between club catharsis and solitary reflection.
If “One Life” offers the most cinematic scope – a track that stretches skyward until it bursts into festival-sized release – then “Last Forever” is the EP’s emotional anchor. As the focus track, it embodies everything Thaylo does best: a propulsive rhythm bound to the dancefloor, underpinned by melodies that ache with the longing of impermanence.
Thaylo may cite Solomun and Ludovico Einaudi as influences, but ‘Drown In Your Eyes’ shows an artist finding his own axis between raw emotionality and club-ready precision. It’s a record that doesn’t just ask you to listen, but to feel – a rare thing in a landscape where so much electronic music settles for gloss.
