James Madx is sublimely talented. The New York based producer and singer has a style and substance similar to the likes of the ever impressive Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino. In his slow and sumptuous r&b tracks, he combines dreamy and atmospheric production with deeply expressive and emotive vocals to completely transfix the listener throughout his work. It’s enigmatic and romantic, keeping you almost perennially intrigued and unexpected as to what his next move is going to be. On ‘Round and Round’, Madx has you in a loop, a seamless one that grips you at your core and places you in a hypnotic state entirely obsessed with each intonation and switch that the track undergoes.
Serving as a single and promotional release for an album that promises to break even more boundaries, Round & Round has me desperately waiting for what James has to offer later. This one man army has miles to go.