Blue Dream - SKYLER

The good: SKYLER brings her recognizable, sonically euphoric style to Monstercat for her "Blue Dream" EP, and alone, that style is something I honestly dig pretty hard. SKYLER's 'future trap' is, in effect, a bridge between future bass and hardwave, taking melodic supersaws and big synth runs from the former and streamlining them into hardwave-esque leads and subs. It's a strong style for sure, and "Blue Dream" has the production to match, with polished mixdowns and clean sound design alongside neat sampling and/or vocal performances (mainly of Josh Rubin on "Fix Me"). I am very intrigued as to how SKYLER settles into the trap scene in the future, because this is honestly a great showing.

The bad: Despite being interesting in the wider context of the scene, "Blue Dream" is very repetitive in its own context. All of the tracks showcase the future trap style well, but they fail to try different things to one another — both from a production standpoint and an emotional standpoint, with some tracks feeling a little shallow in the latter — and ultimately this project loses my interest quite quickly.