Albums
Good Job - No Conversation - EP
2017
Genre: Dance
Release Date: 2017
By Brian Howe
Reviewed January 8, 2018
Channeling Sade, covering James Blake, and indulging in some silk-sheets saxophone, the Danish pop producer William Asingh makes a plush, playful, and quietly audacious debut.
It’s likely that no one has ever said to themselves, “Gee, I wish Sade would cover James Blake on a coffeeshop soul record slathered in sexy sex and Spanish guitar.” But sometimes you don’t know what you want until it’s right in front of you. , the debut EP from Copenhagen producer William Asingh, aka Vera, which he posted on SoundCloud in late 2017, is like that. If you’re a credits-digger, maybe you know him from his work behind the boards with Danish acts such as MØ, who was featured on Major Lazer and DJ Snake’s international hit “Lean On.” Now, trying his own hand at pop, Asingh is as much curator as musician, weaving vivid cultural references, tony vibes, and uncredited collaborations—a beat from a friend here, a lyric from his girlfriend there—into an instantly captivating, deceptively single-origin artifact.