Kindness: World, You Need a Change of Mind – review

London/Berlin-based Adam Bainbridge's Kindness project has been festooned with comparisons to Prince and Arthur Russell. In fact, his achingly hip music is awkward to define, a union of faux-disco/AOR and Ibiza chillout that arose from experiments with the chillwave fad for smoothed-out versions of 80s pop. Two unlikely covers from that period remain. The Replacements' Swingin' Party sounds like a blissed-out Talking Heads, while Anita Dobson's Anyone Can Fall in Love, of all things, is reinvented as smoochy boyband soul. Elsewhere, Cyan has shimmering melodies burnished to a beatific haze over Friendly Fires-type funky grooves. It's classy and airy, although so stylishly produced (with French house guru Cassius) that it can feel like a soundtrack to an imaginary Ideal Home exhibition of laboratory-like perfection. The excellent That's Alright – a saxophone club mashup not unlike Lester Bowie playing Chic – provides some very welcome edge.