Back to the Fluid Funk fold following last year’s “Right Kill EP”, Sven Wegner turns in his newest four-tracker, “Better Day EP”. Showcasing the same luminous strain of funky house tinged with layers of sample-heavy complexity, this new effort beams feelgood vibes by the dozen. All in heavily-processed loops and filtered stunts, the title-track “Better Day” soaks us in a fevered mix of poolside hedonism and low-slung boogie. An invitation to give in to the healing power of disco, the tune's churning dynamics as much as its playful collage of soulful vocals and rippling FX have us magnetized from cover to cover.

In the hands of the Dutch Freerange affiliate Yannick Roberts, the track trades some of its effusive fireworks-like funkiness for a tighter rhythmic corset, each part falling perfectly into place in this further laid-back, after-ready ride, as Roberts cleverly runs the gamut from proper gridlocked Chicago house to sedated acid house on a drip-tease flex. “Hold On” revolves around a more linear narrative arc, elegantly bridging the gap between classic piano house and more intricate interplays between bass maneuvers, tribal-ish polyrhythms and pure early Chi-town material suavity. Rounding off the journey on a bouncy note, final number “Get It Right” comes full circle with the lead single’s fun-loving chug and patchwork-like quality, merging the finest of hip-hop-adjacent tropes and house’s variegated arsenal of smooth, though deadly, machine talk.