How long does it take for a song to truly grab you? Sometimes it takes a few spins for a chorus to bury its way into your brain and take residence there. Sometimes it only takes a single listen for it to dawn on you that you just heard something special. With ‘Gone Like A Flower’, all it took was a single note, that first Gilmour-esque bend, for me to know that a truly mesmerising track lay ahead of me. Club Kuru delivers on that promise with every note that follows. The spaced out Pink Floyd-ian guitar tone growing to integrate a sense of warmth and soulfulness to its melodic expanse, in a way that’s reminiscent of Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Cold Little Heart’. The dreamy wistful vocals, the rich refined drum work, production about as close to perfection as human minds can muster; all culminating in an emotional and evocative solo channelling a slice of the spirit of Funkadelic’s mind-bending ‘Maggot Brain’. Such an exquisitely crafted journey from the first note to the last.