Tsha is a savvy, London-based producer, skilled in curation and composition of warm, down-tempo electronic dance music, with an unobtrusive and disarmingly chill vibe. The songs on her latest EP Flowers are actually so relaxed and easily digested that it would be markedly easy to miss how deftly intricate they are. In all honesty, it took me about four full playthroughs before the deeply considered qualities of the elegant revelation "Sisters" hit me with the full weight of its budding bliss. The song is about Tsha meeting an estranged sister, who shares a father with, from whom her sister is also estranged. The playful, bucking piano sample echos with a resonance of hope and nostalgia, while a shuffling beat hints at both hesitance and abandonment to anticipation. As good as this opener (and lead single) is, the EP really doesn't hit its emotive high points until the sturdy, tense-funk relay and ricochet of "Renagade" gets up to speed, taking various forms of slick '90s electronica and weaving them into a sleek catsuit of pointillist guitars and cross-stitched pan flutes, tempered by eruptions of pressure-boosting, neon-hued, synth incendiaries. The next track, "Changes" features the vocal talent of Gabrielle Aplin, and has more of a classic '80s R'nB vibe by way of '10s pop-revivals, like a Carly Rae Jepsen remix, where the singer duets with the low-key flash of a dusky synth chord on the back of a somersaulting snape-beat, while phasing through the rinsing loops of a flattering temporal-distortion. The EP wraps with the intriguing, pan-global swath of "Demba" where Tsha pairs the rhythmic chants of Malian singer Trio Da Kali with the babbling echo of a ligneous balafon, feeling like a bit of world-beat caught up in the blissful-sweep of a Bonobo inspired groove. Sufficed to say, a bouquet of beautifully arranged sounds awaits your adoration on Flowers.
