The best thing about UK producer ANZ’s latest track, Clearly Rushing, is how simple the whole thing is. Pivoting away from the poppy house and afters bass of All Hours, Clearly Rushing feels sort of old school.
The whole thing finds itself centred around an 8-bit synth riff and a booming garage loop. That riff, analogous and dimensional, spins about in the space of the beat’s valleys, creating a sense of rise that promises to build Clearly Rushing to a woozy, bombastic climax. But, cleverly, it’s a bait and switch – the whole thing returns to that beat, the drums in isolation feeling even more potent on the other side of the track.
With three simple elements, ANZ creates something that’s truly exciting here. Clearly Rushing is a testament to her undeniable skills as a producer, but also to ANZ as a scholar of UK electronic music. Like the greats she so ardently studies, Clearly Rushing feels anthemic.
