Built from ‘larger than thou’ handclaps and a rollicking bassline, Toro’s a-side “Phantom Drive” continues My Best Friend’s jaw-dropping trek through the genre-orgy of italo-electo-disco-house. Toro, consisting of Jorge Gebauhr and Riley Reinhold (Triple R), also lay down “Ohio 69,” which trades the hand-claps of “Phantom Drive” for drum machines as well as the fat bassline for off-kilter clangs of a melody. Always driving between expansive and visceral, “Phantom Drive” is simultaneously hypnotizing and provoking throughout.

My Best Friend / MBF 12010
[Nate De Young]