Will Taylor, or SkyFlowers, a Middle Tennessee-based music producer, released an independent self-titled, electric dance, hyperpop project in the summer of 2024, around the time the dance pops of Chappell Roan and Charli XCX were echoing off the walls of Bridgestone Arena and Eastside Bowl, as well as the airwaves. This even local-er debut, pulled together single by single over the course of a couple of years, makes for an electronic cornucopia of romantic venting dance-pop (perhaps rivaling the chemistry of Gotye, the artist behind the “Somebody That I Used to Know” track and video).

The “duo” track of SkyFlowers, “Cherry Blossom,” features vocalist-turned-MIDI-keyboard key Erin Brooke (also writer of the track) growing a song as smooth as bouquets bloom, all done with delicate hands at the mixing board, a tricky editing task considering the potential for electronic music’s timing to turn blotchy due to its intricacies. SkyFlowers shines through on all channels, however, to create a digital realm which melds, flows and genuinely invokes emotions, entertainingly.

No matter if you’re into electronic dance or not, the standout instrumental “Hyasynth” is a winner, tonally captivating in its repetition in ascending progression. The track mesmerizes to an optimistic, captivating degree, the dream of any globally known DJ. As for the rave-goers, it makes a pretty sick track to blow the foam out and start rubbing on one another.

“Don’t Know Her” provides mixing between different speakers for a three-dimensional listening experience, an impressive and pleasant surprise—and a woulda-been shoo-in for an ’80s rom-com soundtrack.

“Fortune Teller” is dance-dance, for sure, a British, ’80s pop Rick Astley sound. But the upbeat cut’s point of deception really comes from the lyrics, as it’s SkyFlowers’ breakup song.

At a distance, one might wonder if any given track on SkyFlowers is one of the motivational Chinese or Korean pop songs played over loudspeakers on their workers’ way home from work, as a sort of societal morale booster (the American equivalent perhaps being “Happy” by Pharrell Williams). But it’s all upbeat and it’s never too far away from a repetitively endearing mood, such as in “Tour Date,” which ultimately pop-fist-pumps We can dance, we can dance, we can dance ’til we run out of music . . .

SkyFlowers’ neutropical/porch sunshine instrumental “Sunburner” is a scorcher, too. Oscillating keys and beat machines change forms, leaning back and forth between varieties of the effects in this head-bobber.

It’s a hopeless romantic’s album, with all the modern bells and whistles to boot, in this era of electronica music revisited in the basements and bedrooms of area folk, on Instagram reels, via the skillset of OG staple Negativland, by experimental, 35-year-old Nashville waiters, and even by SkyFlowers.

Everything’s there for you.

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