‘Summertime’ by Walter Hansen Lives Where Lust for Life Meets Oceanic Longing –

Walter Hansen’s latest single, Summertime, is for everyone who has felt nostalgia for a perfect moment as it was still unravelling. Sonically visualising the scintillation of sun-kissed serendipity, Hansen’s experimental EDM pop hit pulls in motifs from across the globe; there’s everything from tropic pop heat to afrobeat rhythmics to Arabian snaking hooks, and at the centre of it all is his cultivation as a classic pop crooner. Recorded in his own studio after first taking shape in Sarasota near the beach, before later being completed in the Pacific Northwest, the single carries the feeling of a memory that refused to fade until it found the right form.

That lingering sense of emotional suspension and the chilled haze of the melodies allow Summertime to establish itself as immersive conduit of catharsis, somewhere you can always return to, knowing you’re in deft hands, where life itself is almost allowed to take on more fundamental meaning.

It’s impossible to tie the track to any one epoch; its timelessness works in beautiful tension with the thematic core of the release, placing you on the edge of an oceanic panorama as you’re reminded what it means for lust for life to converge with love for another. It’s a lush release that deserves to land right on your playlists.

Summertime is now available on all major streaming platforms, including SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast