Transitions provides six tracks of melodic packages waiting to be explored. When thinking of literal transitions within the album, we can see how every song lends itself to a different mood. Without vocals and with plenteous layers, we’re left to interpret with only what we hear and eventually how we move.
Transitions opens with “Gamalena,” whose sounds immediately remind me of a fusion of windchimes and chirping birds over a thumping bass.
It is springtime with a bass of summer, like a garden growing in a dark nightclub where the air is laced with sweat, smoke, and drug fumes. The rest of the album carries with it a video game quality, mixing R&B influences with synthesized, piercing sounds. This combination leaves us to embrace the toxic and addictive vibes radiating despite the transitions. SBTRKT has accomplished difference while coating the album with an unavoidable magnetism.
