Chicane — Nevertheless. Briefly about the best album of 2023

About the best album of this summer, and possibly the whole year. Although you wouldn’t think so from the unimpressive cover. Chicane’s Nevertheless, in which Nick finally stopped his attempts to cater to young people and force out some trendy sound and instead turned to his roots: to the 1980s music which was the music of his childhood, and to the atmosphere of Balearic sunsets and sunrises, which he was passionate about in the late 1990s. Familiar sequences, percussion, harmonies and modulations seem to be borrowed from his first records (perhaps because in 2022 Nick delicately refreshed his debut album Far from the maddening crowds with these vibes of the glare of the sun between the leaves of palm trees that went to the ninth album). In the first weeks after the release, Nevertheless went to the tops of streaming platforms and for once I agree with the charts.