The four members of London quartet PREP are, we’re told, a hip-hop producer, a classical composer, a house DJ, and a singer-songwriter. Naturally, the music they make together sounds nothing like any of those gigs. “Who’s Got You Singing Again,” a downbeat disco track whose video we’re premiering today, sounds instead like the work of a castaway kid cut from Steely Dan’s Aja—gooey rhythms, piquant strings and piccolos, falsettos aplenty.
It’s smooth listening, in other words, but that smoothness belies a sense of pop sophistication. Notice, particularly, the trickles of sound that dot the background of the song, the ticks and tweaks and minor sparkles, or the space-warbled keyboard tones that guide the track over the soft curves of the bass. At its core, it’s a maudlin torch song, but the production and composition—the way that the song is dressed and buffed, as if it’s aware of the silliness of its own conceit but not willing to concede its validity—make it imminently compelling.
The video, which you can see below, echoes the sentiment, following the estranged couple as they go about their days in Seoul, the titular question ringing off of every frame.
“Who’s Got You Singing Again” is taken from Futures, PREP’s debut EP, which is out now via B3SCI.
