You, Me & US

Listening to You, it’s hard to believe that Brooks is the work of a producer whose just about old enough to legally buy a drink. Indeed, though the precocious UK producer makes nods to influences like Shep Pettibone and David Byrne, the sum total of these and other parts is something unique.

Irrespective of whether the youthful artist is re-inventing the boundaries of deep house – on the title track, serving up the kind of heart stopping techno soul – on ‘Clix’ that Eddie Fowlkes and Dan Curtin are capable of, or heading off the map entirely with electronic folk songs for spacey cowboys – ‘Wandering’, an underlying, utterly distinctive feeling of electronic experimentation pervades Brooks first great adventure.