Jamie Woon’s debut alubm has been a possibility for a few years now; the inactivity that followed “Wayfaring Stranger” stuck a giant question mark next to the young Brit and his promising voice. Mirrorwriting will finally surface in May, and we now have the second single. After his pretty but toothless debut single “Night Air,” we’ve been handed “Lady Luck,” a soulful track that sonically lands somewhere between James Blake and The xx.
Here, Woon relies on a little creativity at the mixing board to give the song something to bite into. His velvet, gossamer falsetto is laced with electronic jerks and twitches, drifting over Burial-inspired percussion populated with handclaps. The bass is filtered and fuzzed out to sound like a murky synthesizer and buzzes resolutely, dirtying up Woon’s slickly produced double-tracked vocals. If this is a better indication of what we’ll see from Woon on Mirrorwriting, we may have a few minor gems on our hands.
