Frank & Tony – Ethos

Frank & Tony make sure to check all the boxes with the lengthy press release that accompanies their comeback album “Ethos”—deep house is the sound of marginalised communities, an expression of joyful resistance etc., the whole “Midtown 120 Blues” sort of gospel—but really, these are just nine perfect takes on formulas that by now are three decades old and still feel as exciting as they probably did when the first Prescription records hit the dancefloors. This is Deep House with a capital D and H, taking the tradition so seriously that it sounds barely distinguishable from the stuff it’s modelled after. Which is, to be clear, a very good thing. Kristoffer Cornils