Motives – Solace EP [PRGRSSN]

Le Youth welcomes emerging US talent Motives to PRGRSSN as he reveals his three-track ‘Solace’ EP.

Based in Washington DC, Ben Kane, aka Motives, is an artist on the rise having featured across a host of the city’s renowned venues including Flash, Sax and Ten Tigers. A lifelong musician, drawing inspiration from melodic and progressive territories and artists such as Lane 8, Yotto and Cassian, his musical output under Kane (DC) led to strong early-attention from across the scene, and this November welcomes a debut appearance on Le Youth’s PRGRSSN Records imprint as he delivers the first release under his Motives guise, ‘Solace’.

Title cut ‘Solace’ opens the package in style as escalating synths and delicate vocals float atop of driving basslines to deliver a dynamic opener, whilst ‘Roadmaps’ welcomes a more paired-back production with uplifting lead melodies and wandering electronics. To close, the immersive ‘Nothing Stays’ concludes the EP in tantalising fashion as further alluring vocal work ebbs and flows amongst effervescent basslines and sweeping leads to shape up proceedings.