2020 brings us shades with deep anticipation as Subplot closes its first year of feverish releases with a commemorative vinyl release featuring 2019's highlights. Moving on to business as usual, we have a stellar stable of tunes coming your way from future thinking artists capturing nostalgic sentiments. In this release, label head Jeffrey Tice returns with a jazz-drenched house music offering reinforced by one of house music's most iconic figureheads of the San Francisco area club scene and beyond, David Harness.

The humbly titled 'Better Than Monkeys' combines powerful soul and jazz elements with impactful drum syncopation. Chicago style piano stabs dance around floating Rhodes trills which produce melodic depth with plenty of air for mounting progression. The elements continue, as mellotron strings carry the listener into dream state territory. David Harness's remix dives deeper with west coast elements converging over the house music fundamentals. Rhythmic constructions provide the foundation as anxiety-eliminating chords explore the full range of harmony between the jazz origins. Softly spoken whispers bridge the heady variations while the smoothly crafted bass line carries the listener. This release is a perfect tool for the laid back pool excursion and the rowdy dance rotation alike.