Jam City is soon to release a new EP, Waterworx, through Night Slugs. Rather generously, the label seems to have uploaded clips all of its tracks to Soundcloud for you to preview.

First impressions are good: it opens with ‘Aqua Box’, which comes over like toughened-up, tom-heavy Chicago house until an obscene electro bassline torpedoes in, but far more striking is the harder-to-categorise ‘Countess’, a puzzle of broken drums, spidery arpeggios and squealing drones. The pensive yet propulsive ‘Island’ has been floating around for two years and has lost none of its lustre, while ‘Barely A Trak’ and ‘Waterfalls’ are party house cuts, the former admitting a hefty grime influence in its stop-start rhythm and day-glo synth splatter, the latter channeling some of the starlit romance and melancholy of the Virgo Four.

We expect Waterworx will drop on 12″ and digital some time in July.

NS011 – Jam City – Waterworx EP – Aqua Box by NightSlugs

NS011 – Jam City – Waterworx EP – Countess by NightSlugs

NS011 – Jam City – Waterworx EP – Island by NightSlugs

NS011 – Jam City – Waterworx EP – Barely A Trak by NightSlugs

NS011 – Jam City – Waterworx EP – Waterfalls by NightSlugs