Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

If there’s ever a time when I’m in a club and I hear “Gabriel” by Roy Davis Junior come out of the speakers, I’ll know I’m in the right place, the perfect place. This is nearly discreet house, subtle house, very low-key, built upon a rock of a horn riff (Gabriel’s trumpet, you know – it’s about Gabriel, the angel) and an exceedingly inobtrusive rhythm track, completed with some pink-plonk plush keybs, and the truly heavenly vox of Peven Everett, shouting to the top. What’s the converse of deep house: light house? “Gabriel” is airy yet full in all the right places.