Seven Davis Jr. - Wild Hearts - Ninja Tunes / ZEN12412

Residing in Los Angeles, California, Seven Davis Jr was raised on the classics – from Michael Jackson and Prince to Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin. His early self-released output, however, was more closely aligned to the city’s vibrant left-leaning electronic underground. The past 18 months have seen Seven skips from a retrospective EP via Kutmah’s IZWID imprint to 12"s with Must Have Records, Classic, Ten Thousand Yen (alongside Doc Daneeka) and Funkineven’s Apron Records on a Peven Everett vs. Sa-Ra vs. Derrick Carter flex.

The perfect Valentine's gift for those who like their smoothness a little rough around the edges, "Wild Hearts" and "Let Somebody Love You" distill the soup of influences above into two delightfully disheveled, groove-ridden, catchy-as-hell nuggets… nocturnal fonque of the highest order. His debut album is due later this year.