Herbert’s SCALE isn’t the typical cut ‘n’ click affair electronic music fans have come to expect from the !K7 label. And not that there’s anything wrong with that, but this album is a little more special. The tracks are largely vocal-based, with soulful flourishes of horns and strings. On “We’re in Love,” it even swells to reach a grand, Bacharachian level of cinematic swooning. But the album grooves and shakes when it needs to, and do so admirably. All in all, this one hovers somewhere between a posh bar in Broadway and the sunny beaches of Ibiza. –Rod Lott

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