Milow - Ayo Technogoloy [Single]

14th Floor Records

Euro balladising of 50 Cent’s Neanderthal jaunt ‘Ayo Technology’, shows up Johnathon Vandenbroek AKA Milow's ability to truly illuminate the heart in music. More often than not, it is with a throbbing acoustic spin where more vocal clarity is also given to a usually robust offering. What's nice for me in a song is when you’re easily able to assess a song’s lyrical edge, its potential timeless, structure and meaning. In this case, the yearningly delivered vocal stride does justice to the cry for a return to simplicity in a world full of technological advances.

Unfortunately, when swaggering self-confidence is needed in order to show superiority in the wooing of an object of desire, the impact is a tad limp.

This bracing Belgium artist has the ambient scattered foraging ability of the likes of Magnet and, to a lesser extent, Four Tet. It seems obvious that with suitable lyrics, especially using the personal touch of a song written by his own hand; Milow could be a romantic film soundtrack compiler’s dream.